Top 100 If You Let Quotes
#1. Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself.
Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury ... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
L.M. Montgomery
#2. '2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.
Dinesh D'Souza
#3. It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.
James Brown
#4. If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.
Ernest Bevin
#5. You're wrong about me, because we can be friends if you let me try, now that you know how worthless I am. And you're wrong about Barcelona, too, because you may think you've seen everything, but I can guarantee that's not true. If you'll allow me, I can prove it to you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#6. Ultimately, magic finds you, if you let it.
Tony Wheeler
#7. When you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.
Ally Condie
#8. If you let words go buzzing out of your mouth like bees, she always told me, they will come back and sting you.
Susan Fletcher
#9. I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you'll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that's the power that you have as a human being.
Jon Anderson
#10. The answer you seek lies in learning to combine the power of reason with the passion of emotion. If you let reason alone control your choices, you lose the power of intuition. If you let emotion control your choices, you will be a slave to every minor tragedy.
Roy Huff
#11. You hold on tight from now on, so tight it hurts. Got it? Don't let go of me, not ever. Don't worry about hurting me, don't worry about suffocating me, don't worry about holding on too tight. You hold on and you never let go. You'll only hurt me, I'll only suffocate, if you let go. Promise.
Lindy Zart
#14. If you let fear rule you you'll miss the beautiful things right in front of you.
Micalea Smeltzer
#15. God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working.
Jonah Books
#16. Life is generally pretty damn amazing if you let it be.
Tom Hiddleston
#17. If you let go of me now," I whispered, stretching against him, "it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?
Anne Fortier
#18. Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.
Corey Irwin
#19. A macchiato can only solve your problems if you let it, sweetie.
Lilah Pace
#20. I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit, said the travel agent.
Charles Stross
#21. My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
Christopher Durang
#22. Write her a letter, send her a flower, love only gets old if you let it.
William Chapman
#23. Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.
Renee James
#24. If you let your children have their own way, you must not complain if they give you trouble.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#25. Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.
Ben Zobrist
#26. If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.
Brian Swimme
#27. When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.
Stephenie Meyer
#28. We teach people how to treat us. If you don't put up with shit, and don't settle for anything less than respect, that's what you'll get. But if you let the douchebags walk all over you and treat you like you're disposable, then that's what you'll always get.
Kristen Proby
#29. You'll never make it through life if you let irrational fears freeze you all the time.
Sarah Beth Durst
#31. Everyone has to start somewhere. If you let people bring you down now, you'll never know how high you could climb. And you owe it to yourself to try.
Michelle Madow
#32. Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.
Anasazi Foundation
#33. If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
Fannie Flagg
#34. If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
#35. Killing Japanese didn't bother me at that time. It was getting the war over with that bothered me. So I wasn't worried particularly about how many people we killed in getting the job done ... . All war is immoral, and if you let it bother you, you're not a good soldier.
Ronald Schaffer
#36. You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.
Antonya Nelson
#37. Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.
Guy Fieri
#38. You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.
Paul Tsongas
#39. My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.
Theaster Gates
#40. If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.
Wayne Dyer
#41. Don't let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You are the director and the audience. You are in charge. Take the remote control. Change the channel. If you let your imagination run wild, let it run wild in a positive direction.
Joel Osteen
#42. People hurts you if you let them." -Cheyenne.
Nyrae Dawn
#43. Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
OMI
#44. That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.
Mark Twain
#45. You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.
Pete Cashmore
#46. If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#47. If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.
Elvis Presley
#48. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.
Paul Strand
#49. I have since wondered, of course, how my life would have been different if I'd decided to stay home that morning. This is what's called the enigma of history, and it can drive you out of your mind if you let it.
Annie Barrows
#50. There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?
Margaret Mahy
#51. Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.
Heather Brewer
#52. Don't stop," I hiss as he plunges back inside, deeper this time, coaxing another unrestrained noise out of my throat. "Don't you ever stop fucking me."
"Jesus," he swears, gravelly and low. "I'll bury myself in you, if you let me.
Karina Halle
#53. I will never leave you again," he said softly against her ear. "I will follow you around like a lost puppy if you let me. I love you, Sophie. God has given me back my little girl." Sophie
Melanie Dickerson
#54. The past is a whirlpool. If you let it dominate your present moment, it will suck you in," said Shams as if he had read my thoughts. "Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.
Elif Shafak
#55. ...people can surprise you if you let them in.
Kira Saito
#56. It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.
Lindsey Vonn
#57. The world will tell you how to live, if you let it. Don't let it. Take up your space. Raise your voice. Sing your song. This is your chance to make or remake a life that thrills you.
Shauna Niequist
#58. This is a terribly dangerous journey" said Bjorn, "and few would have the courage to make it except you and me". His wife said, "if you let Kari down, you had better realise that you will never be allowed into my bed again, and that my kinsmen will force a division of property between us
Anonymous
#59. Regrets will eat you alive if you let them. You gotta outrun them. Find something in the now.
Annabeth Albert
#60. In order to get past something terrible, sometimes you have to walk through the pain, not around it. It might be messy. It might make you sob. But if you let yourself cry long enough, you finally reach the bottom of your tears. I haven't reached the bottom yet, but I know that someday I will.
Michelle Knight
#61. I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator ... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.
Leonard Slatkin
#62. Your tongue is your horse, and if you let it loose it will betray you.
Jean Sasson
#63. As I got older, the scar reminded me of what people would choose to see if you let them. So I smiled at the attendant, and hoped that she saw a dimpled grin, and not the scar from a girl who started training with very sharp things from a very young age.
Roshani Chokshi
#64. Have it your way, then. Pretend you don't hear your own voice inside the din. Pretend its not telling you things you don't want to know. Pretend that your deepest, most secret wish isn't that someone would love you like you know Malick can, if you let him.
Carole Cummings
#65. Learn to forgive. First others, then yourself - mostly yourself. But you have to forgive. "Get rid of the negativity. So much of your life can go down this dark drain if you let it. Every negative feeling makes you sicker. Every positive feeling makes you better.
Lionel Fisher
#66. If you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.
Bree Despain
#67. If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
Hugh Hefner
#68. The world had a way of speaking to you if you let it; the trick was learning to hear.
Justin Cronin
#69. Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.
Ajahn Chah
#70. The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.
James Swain
#71. Things get better - hurt less - over time. If you let them.
Rainbow Rowell
#72. If you let it, your testimony, and even what you're going through or have been through can help others. Don't let your past go to waste. Use it.
Naya S.
#73. If you let your heart rule you, you'll have a good ruler by which to measure things. This can be called wisdom.
Art Hochberg
#74. I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.
Ian Thorpe
#75. You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.
John Steinbeck
#76. Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
Andrea Gibson
#77. If you let the reality of the business side get to you, it can turn you, and that's not good at all.
Landon Donovan
#78. ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER - IF YOU LET IT.
Ryan Holiday
#79. You're going to have a hard time in life if you let every little mistake bother you, he said. Life is good, son. Enjoy it.
M O Walsh
#80. Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed ...
Isobelle Carmody
#81. Women are like sparkling diamonds, if you let too many hands touch it, not only will it get dirty with too many smudges and finger prints, it will also lose its shine and lustre.
Norhafsah Hamid
#82. If you let a stupid to shape your country, you will surely get an amorphous country!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.
Oprah Winfrey
#84. The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
Jodi Picoult
#85. The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it.
Adam Silvera
#86. The captain shook her head - not in disagreement, but wonder. She glanced at Ariq. We'll do this all for free if you let us see inside that thing.
Meljean Brook
#87. If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.
Jim Butcher
#89. Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them.
Shannon L. Alder
#90. If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
Laozi
#91. I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.
Melissa Rosenberg
#92. Creative imagination is a mystery. If you let it flow, it will happen, & you won't know how the idea came to you. It will just materialize.
Mark Rubinstein
#93. But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
Emily Giffin
#94. If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.
Tom Stoppard
#95. Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.
Kathleen Glasgow
#96. Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you'll most likely fail even before everything else starts.
Veronica Mist
#97. Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
J.K. Rowling
#98. There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
Henry David Thoreau
#99. Life is like a beautiful bird that comes to your hand.If you let it go,it will fly into the sky,never to return.-RVM
R.v.m.
#100. If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.
Tupac Shakur
