I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.”
“It takes strategy to win battles, but it takes wisdom to win hearts.”
“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
“It takes strength and courage to take a step back and remind ourselves that people's reactions are not about us; they are about them.”
Source: The Mountains We Climb
“It takes strength to be gentle and kind.”
“It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.”
Source: Golden Boy: A Novel
“It takes strength to become weak!”
“It takes strength, to feel so much. To feel so deeply.”
Source: A Theory of Dreaming
“It takes strength to get oneself if you have shared a part of it with someone that was never meant to be.”
“It takes strength to let go of the past, but the power to forget it brings true liberation.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.”
“It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“It takes strength to show vulnerability.”
“It takes strength to walk away and discipline to stay away.”
“It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.”
“It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.”
Source: Bus stop
“It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.”
Source: Norman Vincent Peale: The Power of Positive Thinking; The Positive Principle Today; Enthusiasm Makes the Differences
“It takes such a particular amazing and extraordinary type of personality to become an actor. I love them. You can't do my job without them. I've worked with a lot of film actors and most of them are so, so prepared in their approach because they are used to turning up ready to shoot: you have to have your performance, you have to have your lines, you have to have everything pretty much decided and ready to go whenever everyone else is ready.”
“It takes suffering to widen the soul.”
“It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain. Through hardship and struggle, life's journey unfolds, revealing outcomes of unexpected beauty.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions; but such a talent is inadequate. A better sort of talent neglects these extraneous ornaments, unworthy to be used in the service of the Gospel: such a preacher's sermon will be simple, strong and Christian.”
“It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one—which is what happens most of the time.”
“It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.”
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together than it does to fall apart”
Source: Mockingjay
“It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.”
“It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.”
“It takes tenacity and daring to travel the darkest interior of one's self.”
Source: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy
“It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.”
“It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.”
“It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.”
“It takes the boy an hour to half crawl, half stagger to the locker room. It's empty. The heating has been switched off. His shoes have been shredded and his clothes are lying soaking wet on the floor of the shower. It's the best day of his life.”
Source: Beartown
“It takes the courage to speak the truth and show who you really are.”
Source: 100 Untold Quotes That Are Amazing
“It takes the Event Horizon to discover we don't really argue with people.”
“It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.”
“It takes the light in our hearts to see magic that is invisible to most people.”
Source: Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
“It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.”
“It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.”
“It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe.”
“It takes the same effort to dream small or dream big. Dream big!”
Source: The Magic of Attracting Money
“It takes the same effort to fail as to succeed. To fail, you have to deny that you are a person of significance. That takes a lot of faith. Then, you have to relentlessly expect the worst about yourself and your circumstance. That takes a daring hope. And, you have to be passionate about failing until it becomes a habit. That is unfailing love. To fail or to succeed, you need the same efforts - faith, hope and love.”
“It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.”
“It takes the trust of God for things that exist, to wait on him for the evidence of things that do not exist. Faith and hope make you to thank God for the invisible things by looking at the visible things which were once invisible too.”
“it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.”
Source: Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran
“It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.”
“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”
Source: On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”
“It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.”
“It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs are very worrying. Half of them, apparently, don't believe in global warming. They think it's a hoax, which is more of that stupid, stick-their-head-in-the-sand attitude. Where is the outrage at the generations that have preceded them spending all the money? But the cynicism is so deep and so ingrained; I guess no one feels they can do anything.”