Quotes on Ifs

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs_x000D_ _x000D_ Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. _x000D_ _x000D_ Your life will become better by making other lives better.

Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.