Quotes on Ifs

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

The whole of the American Dream has been based on the chance to get ahead, for one's self or one's children. Would this country have ever reached the point it has if the individual had always been refused the rewards of his labors and dangers?

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.