Top 15 If You Only Quotes
#1. If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.
Ford Madox Ford
#2. If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
Michael Arndt
#3. The problem with fear-based Christianity is we only obey when the fear is there. If you only want to obey God when you feel threatened by his commands, it's not God you worship, but your fear.
Jefferson Bethke
#4. If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU!
Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
#5. And I'm sure everyone else would too if you only allowed them to see more of who you really are, rather than pretending to be someone you're not!
Adele Rose
#6. I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.
Holly Bourne
#7. If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.
Sarah McLachlan
#8. Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are ...
Marianne Williamson
#9. If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#10. I kind of think she's one of the sort you can do anything with if you only get her to love you.
L.M. Montgomery
#11. If you only give back what you get from other people, you're not giving as much as you can.
Ron Kaufman
#12. If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe
Nikola Tesla
#13. There are many answers to be found within," he said, "if you only know what to look for.
Ransom Riggs
#14. If you only love 70% of yourself, that's what is going to come back to you.
Jennifer Aniston
#15. Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm privy!"
"My dear Lifeblesser, please trust me when I say the I have no desire to know any secrets which involve you and a privy.
Brandon Sanderson
#16. If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.
Glenn Reynolds
#17. If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
Jamie Moyer
#18. If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people.
Sam Harris
#19. If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.
Michael Owen
#20. Ever notice how on a bad day you never deserve a salad? I mean how long do you think your bad mood would really last if you only fed your brat celery? How many bad days would your brat tolerate if it no longer got rewarded a drink, a cigarette, or an entire Netflix series on the couch for it.
Lauren Handel Zander
#21. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.
Sun Tzu
#22. Perserverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#23. Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.
Nhat Hanh
#24. If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?
Now, write that book.
M. Kirin
#25. I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
Russell Brand
#26. if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at all, making caricatures of even the people that you know and love most.
The self-preservation instinct. Let your subconscious make parodies of your loss and anxiety and jealousy.
Mons Kallentoft
#27. If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.
Eli Pariser
#28. When you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, 'I really explored myself.' This sense of urgency was instilled when my mom died. If you only go through life doing stuff that's easy, shame on you.
Carol S. Dweck
#29. There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.
Michael Scott
#30. If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.
Wang Shi
#31. If you only knew all the love that I found, it's hard to keep my soul on the ground.
Bradley Nowell
#32. You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.
Mortimer J. Adler
#33. Sorrow and self-pity consume enormous quantities of energy. If you only can desist from feeling victimized by fate and look for a new solution instead, not only would you conserve old energies but at the same time also feel the surge of the new. New hope is kindled in the process.
G.R. Gopinath
#34. Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.
Santosh Kalwar
#35. If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#36. Here is where they tell you, if you only believe, you, too, can live happily ever after.
Brad Barkley
#37. If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.
Edmund Hillary
#38. What is the point in consensual opinion?" Bryant asked, exasperated. "If you only discuss matters of interest with like-minded individuals you never learn anything new. Why would I want a peer group on Twitter? They're just going to agree with me.
Christopher Fowler
#39. If you only live to regret your past, you'll never live to love your future.
Edward Grey
#40. I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.
Sarah McLachlan
#41. Punk ... was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
David Byrne
#42. If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.
R.T. Kendall
#43. If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowhere to run when you need to escape from it for a while.
Sophie Hannah
#44. Don't forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on the benefits of the journey.
Tanya R. Liverman
#45. If you only behave because an invisible man in the sky is watching, then you don't own your own moral structure. Your moral framework is based outside yourself, separate from your reasoning.
Deborah Mitchell
#46. If you only stopped to ask why it was you lost your answer, you might find you asked the question wrong.
Russell Eric Dobda
#47. You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
Anthony De Mello
#48. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if you only dared.
Sarah J. Maas
#49. If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You.
Rumi
#50. There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.
John Shaw Billings
#51. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami
#52. I won't say another word
not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don't, you'd give me some credit for it.
L.M. Montgomery
#53. I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.
James Nicoll
#54. If you only trust God when you don't have to, or only when you understand Him, you won't get very far." Edwin
Eric M. Hill
#55. If you only knew the beauty of who you are, would beg for more light to illuminate every corner of yourself
Ross Hostetter
#56. If you only write what you know, you'll never know anything else. If you only write what you see you'll never see anything else. In order to experience new things you must always step outside of your comfort zone, or your live you life never knowing anything new
Adam Snowflake
#57. If you only do one thing, collect rainwater ...
Bill Mollison
#58. Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you've been passed by.
Clayton Christensen
#59. I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
Steve Lacy
#60. If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep
your mouth shut
Simon Munnery
#61. When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.
Edmund White
#62. The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.
Anton Chekhov
#63. If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.
Myles Horton
#64. If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life.
Robin Sharma
#65. You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.
Ingrid Weir
#66. Everyone should get more involved in exercising, not just for the health benefits, but for the social side too. There are so many different aspects in your life where sport can help. Even if you only go to a class at a local pool, you'll feel the benefits.
Jazmin Carlin
#67. I know I chatter on far too much ... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
L.M. Montgomery
#68. If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.
Tom Krause
#69. I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.
Drew Carey
#70. My God, Cale, if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone - never, not in all the history of the world. And no one who ever gave such warnings and was proved right ever got any good out of it.
Paul Hoffman
#71. If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?
Derrick Jensen
#72. This was the danger, the seduction of time travel, she realized - it was the opportunity, the freedom of a thousand possibilities of where to live and how to start over. It was the beauty open to you in your life if you only stopped for a moment to look.
Alexandra Bracken
#73. If you only think of yourself, there's no room for another in marriage.
Barbara Lieberman
#74. If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.
Stephen Bennett
#75. But if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't.
Anne Shirley
#76. If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
L. Frank Baum
#77. Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
Ray Bradbury
#78. He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor.
Helen Keller
#79. And maybe there is greatness waiting for you - if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.
J.R. Ward
#80. If you only focus on the things you leave behind, you'll never go anywhere.
Katie Kacvinsky
#81. If you only live to be 100 than I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you...from whinnie the pooh
Alex Milne
#82. I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?
Kate Forsyth
#83. If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.
Jared Harris
#84. If you only believe what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not truth you believe, but yourself. - Possidius Adeodat, Archivist of Kenatos
Jeff Wheeler
#85. Getting started as a volunteer anywhere can be a challenge to a lot of people. The biggest hurdle is that people think they have to give all of their spare time. But if you only have a half hour, you can still make a difference. Assisting with small tasks is invaluable.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#86. When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Karen Blixen
#87. If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion
Twyla Tharp
#88. Like a butterfly burrowing from its chrysalis, so shall you find your wings, if you only take the time to find yourself.
L.J. Vanier
#89. Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.
Vincent Cassel
#90. I've been so worried about you lately." Her mom's voice had a quake to it. "It just seems like ever since you met Josh, things have gone to hell."
Ha! If you only knew.
Pembroke Sinclair
#92. The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#93. If you only know your own side of a case, then your belief is likely to be inadequate. You need to be able to refute counter-arguments to your position otherwise you aren't justified in your belief even if it happens to be true.
Nigel Warburton
#95. If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
Neil Gaiman
#96. If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#97. Motto is Happiness is a #Hashtag and we live life knowing the fairy tale is possible, even if you only get it online.
J.A. Huss
#98. Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
Walter Jon Williams
#99. Don't let truth and grace forsake one another. If you raise your child with only truth (or your laws), they will never live up to your rules or expectations. No one can fulfill all of the law. On the other hand , if you only give grace to your children, they will run wild without restraint.
Neil Kennedy
#100. It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
Kevin Spacey
