I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s not the job of the teacher to save a child’s soul; it is the teacher’s job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.”
Source: There Are No Shortcuts
“It’s not the love you make. It's the love you give.”
“It’s not the pain that’s inflicted on us by others that destroys us. It’s the pain we let inside our hearts that does that. Don’t let the human’s anger become yours. It can drive you mad if you do. (M'Adoc)”
Source: The Dark-Hunters
“It’s not the place that matters, It’s how good you are when you get there.” -Rylann”
“It’s not the plant-based foods that will make you ill, it’s the meat and the liquid meat (i.e.: dairy) that can lead to sickness and death. Consider this: If your food had a face or a mother (or comes from something that did), then it also has varying amounts of artery-clogging, plaque-plugging, and cholesterol-hiking animal protein, animal cholesterol, and animal fat. These substances are the building blocks of the chronic diseases that plague Western society.”
“It’s not the struggles that define you; it’s how you overcome them.”
Source: Drinking and Tweeting: And Other Brandi Blunders
“It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.”
Source: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word”
Source: On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
“It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.”
“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
Source: America
“It’s not what you believe that counts; it’s what you believe enough to do.”
Source: The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World
“It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.”
“It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.”
“It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.”
“It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.”
Source: Nothing By Chance
“It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.”
“It’s not who was right or who was wrong when a mistake was made. It’s about who learned from it.”
“It’s not who you want to spend Friday night with. It’s who you want to spend all day Saturday with.”
“It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!”
“It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’”
Source: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
“It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (‘illegal’) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUM’s campaign to end the use of the term ‘illegal’ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status.”
“It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.”
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective
“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.”
“It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.”
“It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of # collaboration .”
“It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.”
“It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.”
“It’s okay if no one believes like you, all experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can’t think like you, for this be relieved, keeps things interesting, life’s magic things in reach, and it doesn’t mean you aren’t connected, and the community is not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it.”
“It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.”
“It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.”
Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
“It’s okay to show up at a guy’s house with a dozen roses and declare your undying affection. It’s okay to have too much to drink and call your ex twenty times and then to be mortally embarrassed when you realize your number must have shown up on his caller I.D. It’s okay, because making a fool of yourself for love is ultimately about you, how much you have to give and the distance you will travel to keep your heart wide open when everything around you makes you feel like slamming it shut and soldering it closed.”
“It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.”
“It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.”
“It’s okay, Kriss. Have some pie,” Natalie offered.”
“It’s okay. I’m used to people not wanting me at their parties.” I pushed to my feet. The stars seemed to twirl a bit with the movement. “No big deal.”
“It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.”
Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
“It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.”
“It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.”
“It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream. Of course, I’m not sure they’ll be up to it.”
“It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.”
“It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.”
“It’s one of those things where when you’re training and fighting, you can’t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your pet’s cancer, or anything. Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. It becomes a singularity of purpose, which an ADD kid like me rarely gets. I like that moment of clarity in fights, and I truly have that. I lose myself in the details of those 15 minutes and you don’t worry about what people think of you.”
“It’s one thing if a person learns you’re a witch. It’s quite another if he learns you’re a murderer. I almost forget I’m a witch now that I know I’m a murderer—murderess, actually. Murderess sounds so much worse.”
“It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.”
“It’s one thing if you are a luxury brand and have been around for 60 years and can weather the retail storm we’ve had, but if you are a new brand that’s just starting out — whether you are a writer or a retailer — innovating through social media is crucial. Those that are hidden and guarded will not progress.”
“It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.”
“It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.”