Top 100 If You Have To Quotes
#1. If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.
Karin Slaughter
#2. If you have to look any further than your own backyard to find your hearts desire, you never really lost it to begin with
Morgan Matson
#3. Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.
Linden Ashby
#4. What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.
Neal Shusterman
#5. My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.
Charlene Weir
#6. If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.
Walter Bagehot
#7. If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.
Peter Diamandis
#8. Kindness and humbleness are really good qualities to possess. But, if you have to use the word humble, it means you're not humble. And if you're not humble to this world, this world will thrust humbleness upon you.
Mike Tyson
#9. If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
Noam Chomsky
#10. If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.
Mamie Till
#11. When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.
Michael Kors
#12. You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Publilius Syrus
#13. Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong
#14. Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.
Cesar Romero
#15. The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
Zooey Deschanel
#17. Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.
George Matthew Adams
#18. If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
Christopher Morley
#19. Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.
Albert Einstein
#20. If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.
Natan Sharansky
#21. If you have to choose between two theories, prefer the one that doesn't center on you.
Paul Graham
#22. If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.
Miriam Toews
#23. Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?'
'Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world.
Thomas Harris
#24. Someone once said to me that I've always been his, and that even if he never got to keep me, I'd still be his. Well I'm yours, Ryan, and even if you have to leave me, I'll always be yours.
Kate McCarthy
#25. Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true ... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.
Diane Duane
#26. If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.
Sparky Anderson
#27. I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.
Gayle Forman
#28. If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.
Joel Salatin
#29. On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
Anthony Quinn
#30. If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.
Lisa Kleypas
#31. If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep, but don't ever give up. You will get there.
Colin Cunningham
#32. Go straight to God, and dump it right at His feet. You go down with it if you have to. Then leave it there and go on and do what you know is right now. That other is done. It doesn't make you who you are. It just teaches you who to be.
Nancy Rue
#33. Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.
Arlene Dahl
#34. Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
Margaret Thatcher
#36. I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write
W.S. Merwin
#37. You're floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience.
Michael Singer
#38. How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
Katherine Mansfield
#40. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katharine Hepburn
#41. In my opinion, being a Christian is a noticeable behavior. If you have to tell somebody you're a Christian, then you're probably not doing it right.
Steve Maraboli
#42. I believe most people are good, even deep down, even if you have to dig a little - although some people can tempt one to pick up a shovel and actually put that to the test.
Christina Engela
#43. If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.
Alex Bogusky
#44. If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.
David Horowitz
#45. You are a beloved child of God. But please remember this, too: You are human. You cannot expect to eat perfectly, look perfect, or be perfect. When you stumble, pick yourself up, even if you have to do it again and again.
Kate Wicker
#46. If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
Criss Jami
#47. Later, Achilles pressed close for a final, drowsy whisper. 'If you have to go, you know I will go with you.' We slept.
Madeline Miller
#48. When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
Henry Rollins
#49. Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.
Chris Hardwick
#50. It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini
#51. Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go
Taylor Swift
#52. If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.
Shannon L. Alder
#53. If you have to ask, you'll never know. If you know, you need only ask.
J.K. Rowling
#54. Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.
Paul Dickson
#55. When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.
Bruce Lee
#56. You can't keep it all inside, Emma. Cry. Scream if you have to, but don't let it destroy you. I wish you wouldn't underestimate your strength.
Rebecca Donovan
#57. Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
Terry Brooks
#58. I don't care if you have to scream
just scream anonymously
Ronie Kendig
#59. If you have to ask if you've done enough, you haven't. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday.
Steve Maraboli
#61. If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.
Lucas Black
#62. Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.
Cher
#63. If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.
Shannon L. Alder
#64. Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.
Jessica Zafra
#65. His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.
Martha Wells
#66. When you can, avoid sitting, or even open up a direct attack. Set your phone or watch timer to go off every hour so that you get up out of your chair, mobilize for a minute or two, and then (if you have to go back to sitting) sit down with your butt and stomach muscles turned on and engaged.
Kelly Starrett
#67. A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun.
Gerry Geek
#68. If you have to explain it, you've told the wrong people.
Iimani David
#69. It turns out you can go home again, if you have to.
Lev Grossman
#70. Slow down and explain to us plebeians. If you have to, use sock puppets.
Lish McBride
#72. The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.
Shirley Jackson
#73. You can have a whole warehouse full of weapons, but if someone attacks you need to get that weapon fast. If you have to run to the warehouse and look around, you're going to get killed. You're better off with a little backpack of weapons instead of that warehouse.
Jon Fitch
#74. I get it the whole idea of willingly going to hell for someone. Living there insane if you have to because you'd rather be insane with them than endure life without them.
Karen Marie Moning
#75. If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.
Gregory Peck
#76. If you have to choose between any two, first choose time to think.
Mohith Agadi
#77. If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Reform supports all efforts of tax reform, getting rid of deductions or credits, or something that's misclassified, as long as you at the same time reduce rates so that it's not a hidden tax.
Grover Norquist
#78. There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.
Nicola Griffith
#79. Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to.
When you have to.
Malorie Blackman
#80. You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.
Bronwyn Bishop
#81. I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still in the romance stage. I'm in the stage where I've been married to it for 60 years, and I don't think I'll ever get a divorce.
Matt McGorry
#82. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but if you have to use an alarm, you aren't getting enough sleep, either.
Laura Markham
#83. If you have to live in the mud for a while, you must not resist being a frog for a while!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. It is difficult to live without judging others. If you have to judge, then judge with love.
Debasish Mridha
#85. If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Judy Garland
#87. If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.
Thomas Jefferson
#88. If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
David Nicholls
#89. Once I asked my dad how you know when you're in love. He said you just know, and that if you have to ask the question then you haven't been in love yet. And he's right. Because there aren't words for this. No combination of letters could ever represent what she is to me.
Mindy McGinnis
#90. If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
Mark Twain
#91. I'm going to love Lily how I want to love her.
Overwhelmingly, uncompromisingly.
Look away if you have to.
Krista Ritchie
#92. I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.
John Landgraf
#93. I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.
T. Boone Pickens
#94. If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person; choose your self-respect & ego.
Because other person may leave you at their will but your self-respect & ego will always support and carry you even in toughest situations.
Nikita Dudani
#95. You alone will know why I killed myself. You know my principles. I hate those who commit suicide. Besause of what they do TO OTHERS. If you have to do it, you must disguise it. Out of kindness.
Albert Camus
#96. If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.
Wes Smith
#97. Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.
Trey Parker
#98. Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn
#99. You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.
Jim Dale
#100. What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.
Robin McKinley
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