If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.
‐‐ Ted Cruz
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
‐‐ Richard Bach
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
‐‐ Black Elk
If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war.
‐‐ Asif Ali Zardari
If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
‐‐ Marianne Moore
If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski
If you win a race, you don't ask how you did it, as long as you do it.
‐‐ Gene Simmons
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
‐‐ John Madden
If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.
‐‐ Doug Davidson
If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.
‐‐ Guy Forget
If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua
If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.
‐‐ Chris Wedge
If you win while scoring goals, then you leave happy, but the most important thing is always the team. I do not think just of me.
‐‐ Luis Suarez
If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.
‐‐ Andres Iniesta
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
‐‐ Leslie Stephen
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
‐‐ Brian Tracy
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
‐‐ Johann Kaspar Lavater
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
‐‐ Henry Clay
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
‐‐ Francois Rabelais
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wish to be a writer, write.
‐‐ Epictetus
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
‐‐ Gerald Brenan
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.
‐‐ Lewis Tappan
If you wish to fly to new heights, begin by setting your sights on a destination you can reach and then create a flight plan, a map, that will be your guide.
‐‐ Debbie Ford
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.
‐‐ Angela Merkel
If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
‐‐ Alexander Smith
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
‐‐ Carl Sagan
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
‐‐ Alexander Smith
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus
If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll
If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.
‐‐ Hulagu Khan
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
‐‐ Alphonsus Liguori
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
‐‐ Joseph Addison
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
‐‐ Cesare Pavese
If you wished to be loved, love.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
‐‐ Maeve Binchy
If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.
‐‐ Dominic Monaghan
If you wonder why urban young black women are allowing themselves to be victimized by Planned Parenthood, look at BET, which is owned by very wealthy white Democrats.
‐‐ Burgess Owens
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
‐‐ Richard Russo
If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.
‐‐ John Connolly
If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.
‐‐ Don Tapscott
If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.
‐‐ James Surowiecki
If you work for it, you'll deserve what comes. Hard work.
‐‐ DeMar DeRozan
If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura