Quotes on Ifs

If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further.