I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.”
Source: Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance
“It takes more than Love and Passion to make a relationship work”
Source: Can't Hurry Love
“It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.”
“It takes more than one individual to make a team.”
“It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.”
“It takes more than one woman to do things differently...It takes a world of them”
Source: A Woman Is No Man
“It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.”
“It takes more than Sympathy to Empower a person Let's say you found a person on the streets and you feel he needs help, you walk up to him and offer him money and he refuses it, ..says he is okay. Or you see a poor woman and you kindly offer to sponsor her child to school and she says no. You are a good person. But you may not be one who can see through each person and discern how they want to be empowered. Empowerment is personal. What each person terms empowerment is determined by many factors, and the least is your sympathy or your pity. But that's where many people start. The single woman may need a HUSBAND instead of an HELPER. She may want JUST someone to talk to instead of a SPONSOR. The beggar MAY need TODAY'S food not a A SHOP. How do you know what each person needs? Ask, how excited would this person be if I tried to EMPOWER him this WAY? Ask, how well will he use it? That's why the rich at heart stay rich. And the poor stay poor. It begins with the mind. Empowerment to each is different. To empower the poor, work on their minds first. Start the process in stages. Test. The poor at heart value increments. Bite sized offerings. Besides, they would squander the big offerings and still come back, why give them all at once? When you buy cloth for a lazy man, be sure to dye it He wouldn't value it enough to wash it clean.”
“It takes more than words to break the cycle of repeated patterns. Many people would rather complain about painful recurring life patterns rather than summon the courage to confront the depths of their own consciousness, which holds responsibility for the pattern's persistence.”
“It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.”
Source: Mission and Midwifery: Essays on Missionary Formation
“It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.”
“It takes more to abstain than to err, more to avoid mistakes than to make mistakes; but the good thing is that it gets better with practice.”
Source: The Vision
“It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.”
“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
Source: Once Around the Sun
“It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.”
“It takes much more bravery to face your fears than to simply hide from them”
Source: In Her Footsteps
“It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore.”
“It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.”
“It takes neither much time nor cost to think again. Think again!”
Source: Quantraz
“It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.”
“It takes nine tailors to make a man.”
“It takes no courage to criticize. But it takes great courage to do what God tells you to do while loud voices criticize you. You have the power to overcome the negative voices, so be strong in Christ and keep being amazing!”
Source: Jesus and Coffee: 21 Day Journey to Self-Discovery for the Best of Me
“It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.”
“It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.”
“It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.”
“It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. ...When you have the experience of love, either giving it or receiving it, you become magnanimous to the rest of the world. That’s why people in love can do extraordinary things!.”
“It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.”
“It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn’t make and the work we didn’t do and the people we didn’t marry and the children we didn’t have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the kens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, as infinitum, until our time runs out.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It takes no genius to destroy. The creators, the givers, the lovers, the healers - these are the heroes who know - the building up is so much more difficult than the tearing down.”
Source: New York Minute: An Actor's Memoir
“It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big”
“It takes no guts to be skeptical, it takes guts to believe.”
“It takes no imagination to live within your means.”
“It takes no kindness to respect a man who deserves respect - it's only payment which he's earned. To give an unearned respect is the supreme gesture of charity”
“It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.”
Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality
“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.”
Source: Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions
“It takes no prisoners. We had to completely change wardrobe for the girls because we had summer wardrobe set and it was so frigidly cold while we were shooting. And the bug population was through the roof, that summer. It was just silly! The fact that we even survived at all is shocking. The fact that we came out of it with a movie that I really like is awe-inspiring.”
“It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.”
“It takes no time to give up on good things and habits, but to keep doing them without breaking consistency takes a long time to build that rare, great lifestyle.”
“It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.”
“It takes nothing to encourage an artist.”
“It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.”
Source: Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
“It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.”
“It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.”
“It takes one crippled man just to make a hundred people appreciate walking. We like to measure our blessings. The sacrificial lamb.”
Source: True Blue
“It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.”
“It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.”
“It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.”
“It takes one person to give you a big chance.”
“It takes one person to make change happen.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“It takes one person to rewrite the history book.”