All Quotes

If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system.
‐‐ Scott Adams

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.
‐‐ Eric Ries

If your goal is to provide a service at terms your customers can afford, you have to figure out how to offer your services at price points such that your aggregated costs are lower than your aggregated revenues.
‐‐ Thulasiraj Ravilla

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
‐‐ Bao Dai

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.
‐‐ Paul Mooney

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
‐‐ Richard Bach

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
‐‐ Morihei Ueshiba

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.
‐‐ Dylan Lauren

If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
‐‐ Imran Khan

If your husband asks what you think, tell him. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.
‐‐ Kristin Armstrong

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

If your insides are not well looked-after, then your outsides are going to suffer. It's like a glass that's not cleaned from the inside. Whatever you do to polish it from the outside, it's still going to look dirty. So that's the analogy.
‐‐ Shilpa Shetty

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work.
‐‐ Michael A. Stackpole

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.
‐‐ Julius Genachowski

If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
‐‐ Randy Pausch

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
‐‐ Bill Watterson

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
‐‐ Patti Smith

If your last name is Christ, don't name your son Jesus.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.
‐‐ John Bytheway

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.
‐‐ Anne Enright

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
‐‐ Simon Cowell

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.
‐‐ Peter Falk

If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.
‐‐ Shunryu Suzuki

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
‐‐ Bodhidharma

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
‐‐ Manoj Bhargava

If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you're not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist - well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
‐‐ Louise L. Hay

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.
‐‐ Matt Damon

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
‐‐ Bryan Adams

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
‐‐ Phil McGraw

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
‐‐ Brooks Robinson

If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.
‐‐ Bruce Dickinson

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
‐‐ John D. Rockefeller

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
‐‐ Brian Mulroney

If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!
‐‐ Richard Simmons