Top 100 If You Must Quotes
#1. Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
Elizabeth Edwards
#2. Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever.
Gary Hopkins
#3. If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
Yoshida Kenko
#4. If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicolas Chamfort
#5. Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.
Dorothy Dunnett
#6. Persephone had it right.
If you must go, might as well
take all of spring with you -
Cathy Linh Che
#7. If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.
Morrissey
#8. And if you must sacrifice yourself, do that by marrying me. I'm not an easy man. You'll earn your martyr's crown before you're done. Don't condemn both of us to an eternity of unhappiness just because you're too stiff-necked to face society's censure.
Anna Campbell
#9. Tears are not to be wasted on what we cannot help, Lily. If you must be brave, then be as brave as you can.
Tom Murphy
#10. Preach Christ . . . and if you must, use words." Comforting others puts our pain into perspective.
Frank E. Peretti
#11. We have a saying in my country: If you must strike, make sure to follow the hurt with a kiss.
Anne Fortier
#12. Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
Elsie De Wolfe
#13. Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight
Robert Graves
#14. Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.
L.A. Meyer
#15. If you must go to a negative place of power, go to them in a very conservative way. You must go to them when your power is up. It is like going to war. You have got to be ready if you are going to survive.
Frederick Lenz
#16. Make foes of bowmen if you must,
Never of penmen.
Thiruvalluvar
#17. Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
Noel Coward
#18. The lesson seemed to be twofold: do not anger the gods, but if you must, at least make sure your city isn't next to a lake, as that's just asking for trouble.
Jonathan L. Howard
#19. I challenge you to destroy whatever roadblock is keeping you from moving forward. Destroy it with your physical body if you must, but first, destroy it with a power greater than a nuclear bomb - the power of your mind. Think it gone and it will go.
Toni Sorenson
#21. Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.
Agatha Christie
#23. If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb
Scott Lynch
#25. So, be slow if you must, but let
the heart still play its true part.
Love still as once you loved, deeply
and without patience. Let God and the world
know you are grateful.That the gift has been given.
Mary Oliver
#26. If you must then hire for passion first, experience second and credentials third. Then train those hired for directed passion, dropping the excess baggage and the whole process of unlearning. An entrepreneur is much like an architect shapping human resources into a well crafted power house.
Nikhil Sharda
#27. In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?
Rumi
#29. If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.
Ludwig Borne
#30. You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.
Marlene Dietrich
#31. Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
Emma Donoghue
#32. Take the road less travelled. Get lost if you must, because only in losing yourself will you find your true path...
Virginia Alison
#33. If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.
Guy Kawasaki
#34. If you must know, he said 'my goodness me, a walking potato
Terry Pratchett
#35. Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.
Ruth Graham
#36. Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.
John Fowles
#37. The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.
Edward Abbey
#38. If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Gaius Iulius Caesar
#39. Embrace thy need for truth. Be your own seeker. Lie to others if you must but never to yourself.
Truth Devour
#40. They were having sex on Gifford's desk, if you must know."
Lucas's eyes glinted. "His desk, huh?"
"Yes." Amaryllis raised her chin, the better to look down her nose at him. "I would have thought it would have been extremely uncomfo rtable, but they appeared to enjoy it.
Jayne Castle
#42. Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.
Frederick Lenz
#43. And you, Mary, if you must run off to London, why do it in that unfinished manner, so that I was left without the car, and couldn't catch anything until the midnight train at Northallerton? It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#44. Let people pray to God, it's nothing to me. Some good may even come of it, if goodness is something that matters to you. Trap him in churches if you must, and lament him there. But Roma? Roma is a weapon used against us. A poison flavoured sweet and given to hungry men.
Mark Lawrence
#46. I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
Peter McWilliams
#48. While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.
C.S. Lewis
#49. As angry as he was, his father could not help but laugh. 'You're not my son,' he told Bran when they fetched him down, 'you're a squirrel. So be it. If you must climb, then climb, but try not to let your mother see you.
George R R Martin
#51. Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
Dean Karnazes
#52. Sometimes we must fall forward to keep moving. Remain motionless - remain unyielding - and you are as good as dead.
Death follows indecision, like a twisted shadow. Fall forward. Keep moving. Even if you must pick yourself up first.
Renee Ahdieh
#53. Cry if you must. Scream. Get it all out of your system, and then we'll have fun. It won't last forever, but it will keep you busy for tonight.
Jamie McGuire
#54. If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!
Diana Wynne Jones
#55. If you must, go and frolic with a herdsman under a starry, sky, but do not attempt to share his daylight. For the sun works on men as an elixir- it blears their eyes to the worth of women and makes them dare to think they should rule over us.
Anne Fortier
#56. If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.
Meghan Daum
#57. She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne - bubbly and intoxicating - and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn't want to seem like an easy mark.
"If you must know, I've come to join a convent," Evie said, testing him.
Libba Bray
#58. Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach for you and find my heart
Nicholas Sparks
#59. Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J.B. Priestley
#60. Hate me if you must, but know that I will never hate you.
James Frey
#61. Judge me if you must, but keep in mind how very little pleasure I could have possibly derived from a one-thrust sex session, a quickie in a closet, and a come-free drunken hookup.
If anything, you should feel sorry for me.
Kate Madison
#62. Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
#63. Be a Communist, a stamp collector, or a Ladies' Aid worker if you must, but for heaven's sake, be something.
Majorie Hillis
#64. My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Noel Coward
#67. If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
Carl Olson
#68. Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.
Stephen King
#69. If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence.
Robert Kiyosaki
#70. First I become flush with righteous anger, which, if you must be angry, is the very best kind.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#72. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#73. A person you loved has used you and hurt you, but there are more people to love, new paths to pursue, and noble tasks that only you can accomplish-for you and for your entire kingdom. If you must dwell on something dwell on that.
Kelli Swofford Nielsen
#75. The big homie use a flash if you must. And I swear I aint askin for much.
Drake
#76. If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
Mignon McLaughlin
#77. One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.
Ramakrishna
#79. Bargain all you like. Consign yourself to the hangman if you must. The people don't give a fourpenny fuck.
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Hilary Mantel
#80. If you can't be happy, then be something else. Be useful, that would be good. Decorative, if you like. Selfish, if you must. But don't whine about it.
K.J. Charles
#81. Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
Aristotle.
#82. Do it trembling if you must, but do it!
Emmet Fox
#83. Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
Joyce Grenfell
#84. Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.
Sara Evans
#85. If you must be affected by other people's misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt. Drop this readiness to hate and take offence.
Epictetus
#86. Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.
Suheir Hammad
#88. Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
Robert Breault
#90. If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. Build slowly if you must, but by all means, build. In pursuing an orderly process [of Bible study], you follow a pattern established by God himself. The God of the Bible is a God of order.
Jen Wilkin
#92. Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.
Jeff Cooper
#93. Never had anyone said, Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.
Cathie Pelletier
#94. If you must make a noise, make it quietly.
Oliver Hardy
#95. John Watson, a leading childcare authority in the 1920s, sternly advised parents, 'Never hug and kiss [your children], never let them sit in your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say goodnight. Shake hands with them in the morning.'22
Yuval Noah Harari
#96. If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.
Mark Twain
#97. Truth demands progress and change, and is always for the benefit of all souls - even if you must travel through a difficult learning process or make a shift as a result of facing the truth.
Molly Friedenfeld
#98. Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#99. Oh, well. I don't mind helping you to feel guilty if you must. On the other hand, I should point out that of all our various encounters, today is the only time you have favoured me with two civil words in sequence. I found it quite worrying.
Dorothy Dunnett
#100. Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
Sophocles
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