If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
‐‐ Yossi Vardi
If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.
‐‐ Joel Osteen
If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.
‐‐ Simon Spurr
If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
‐‐ Natalia Vodianova
If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
‐‐ Romola Garai
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut
If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.
‐‐ Alex Chiu
If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest plays. They have life, meaning, understanding, the whole lot.
‐‐ Matt Haig
If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.
‐‐ Brunello Cucinelli
If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
‐‐ James O'Shaughnessy
If you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a Christian governor or even the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves a Christian organization, but how is that possible since Jesus didn't do that?
‐‐ Lupe Fiasco
If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte
If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
‐‐ Bill Wyman
If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.
‐‐ David M. Evans
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
‐‐ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
‐‐ James Buchanan
If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.
‐‐ George Galloway
If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine.
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah
If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.
‐‐ Tom Hiddleston
If you are at one with your body, then you are at one with yourself.
‐‐ Margaux Hemingway
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
‐‐ Taryn Manning
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
‐‐ Vusi Mahlasela
If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.
‐‐ Greta Garbo
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
‐‐ Lana Del Rey
If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.
‐‐ Neil MacGregor
If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.
‐‐ George Kaiser
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
‐‐ Mignon McLaughlin
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
‐‐ Henry Cloud
If you are burned, you are naturally anxious to see what your face looks like as soon as they take the bandages off. In my case, it was my voice that was my main concern.
‐‐ Jose Carreras
If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
‐‐ Mary Berry
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
‐‐ Eve Arnold
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
‐‐ Les Brown
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
‐‐ Charlotte Bronte
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
‐‐ Lee Trevino
If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.
‐‐ Janis Karpinski
If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.
‐‐ Shooter Jennings
If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.
‐‐ Lizzo
If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you'll be feeling what they're feeling. If you're separated, it's not a hard thing to do at all.
‐‐ Eve Ensler
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
‐‐ Larry Brilliant
If you are creative enough to select the ideal vocation, you can win, win big time. The really brilliant millionaires are those who selected a vocation that they love, one that has few competitors but generates high profits.
‐‐ Thomas J. Stanley
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis
If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
‐‐ Mike Ditka
If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
‐‐ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman
If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.
‐‐ Judah Friedlander
If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.
‐‐ Matt Gonzalez