Top 100 Only If You Quotes
#1. a statement by Bertrand Russell ... embodies the tone of heroic denunciation that you can muster only if you have drunk deeply from the cup of your own oracular majesty
David Brooks
#2. And if you eat enough of those souls, they begin to corrupt you until you become one of them. Everyone knows that. (Kat)
Only if you're stupid. I'm two hundred years old and I haven't turned yet. You just have to learn to hum a lot so you don't hear their bullshit echoing in your head. (Damien)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. People change, but only if you give them room to do it.
Jodi Picoult
#4. You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.
Harlan Ellison
#5. I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.
Robin Olds
#6. Gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
P.D. James
#8. Volunteering abroad is a powerful force for change but only if you choose the right project.
Volunteer 4 Africa
#9. Yes, you may ask my name but only if you can tell me: are your thighs as fine as a fresh, crisp morning in early July?
Robert Clark
#10. Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emil Cioran
#11. It is only if you have the courage to follow your heart that you will succeed on the path of love.
Frederick Lenz
#12. The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.
Jay Maisel
#13. You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#14. Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say 'It all happened so fast.
J.A. Redmerski
#15. Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love."
"He says only if you love yourself.
Theodore Sturgeon
#16. Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.
Dean Koontz
#17. The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way.
Rajneesh
#18. Only if you are reaady to change yourself can you be ready to change the world.
Edit Schlaffer
#19. America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc.
Sukarno
#20. Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius
Dostoyevsky perhaps.
Larry McMurtry
#22. I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice."
"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.
Jodi Picoult
#23. You will find meaning in life
only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed.
It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced ...
Osho
#24. News always turns into gossip and gossip always turns into news. Only if you repeat it. A choice.
Brian Michael Good
#25. You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.
Howard E. Koch
#26. Listen to me for one fucking second, okay?"
I also whispered, but only because he was whispering, "Only if you stop using the f-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it."
"I'll fucking use whatever fucking word I want to fucking use whenever I fucking want to.
Penny Reid
#27. Go only where you are wanted. Go only when you are needed. Stay only if you are appreciated.
Linda Poindexter
#28. Life is a bliss only if you carefully understand it.
Santosh Kalwar
#29. Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself ...
Andre Kertesz
#30. There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
Craig Brown
#31. You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.
Junot Diaz
#32. Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.
Amity Gaige
#33. Love is bliss only if you are a giver, not otherwise.
Tapan Ghosh
#34. Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.
Karleen Koen
#35. Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.
Yogi Berra
#36. Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.
Hugh Nibley
#37. Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
Eckhart Tolle
#38. Innocent tourists? You make me sound like the big bad wolf."
"And you're not?" I questioned.
"Only if you're Red Riding Hood," he said flirtatiously.
"Wow, that's original.
Alyssa Rose Ivy
#39. The treasures of your life will present themselves to you only if you really are open to them.
Robin Sharma
#40. Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#41. Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced ... can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam ...
Carlton J. H. Hayes
#42. Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.
Heather Brewer
#43. Dab - don't rub - cream formulas onto your skin. Rubbing washes out the color, so do that only if you've put on too much.
Tyra Banks
#44. Start with yourself. Only if you change can the world change. We are just taking it a little bit further. Not only do you start with yourself, but always remember others.
Amit Goswami
#45. If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
Philip Pullman
#46. You will see what you missed only if you turn around.
Han Soo Lee
#47. I am telling you that if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities.
Ruth Reichl
#48. God has said not to create any accounts (karmic). Create accounts (only) if you have the knowledge of the future. Hey! If you want to start an account, then why don't you account for the possibility that you may die tomorrow?
Dada Bhagwan
#49. In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.
Jaggi Vasudev
#50. It may be a small piece at a time, but my past is yours now. All of it. Anything you want to know, I want to tell you. But only if you promise me I can also have your future.
Colleen Hoover
#51. You will achieve full success only if you will obey the Lord and do that which pleases Him
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Then go ahead and say anything." He smirked. "Only if you will." "Fine,
Kiera Cass
#54. I hate this Gladiator shit," Sabin muttered.
"Yes, well, where do you think the Romans learned from?"
Sabin sputtered for a minute. "You're trying to tell me Harpies are responsible for this? That the Romans learned from them?"
"I must try only if you are lacking intelligence.
Gena Showalter
#56. I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.
Novak Djokovic
#57. You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
Alexander Alekhine
#58. No one ever says you're being judgmental if you think something is right or good or healthy. Only the opposite - only if you don't like it and only if they do like it.
J.D. Robb
#59. What Nietzsche recognises is that you can get rid of God only if you also do away with innate meaning. The Almighty can survive tragedy, but not absurdity.
Terry Eagleton
#60. Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
Marge Piercy
#61. Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.
Jane Russell
#62. Maybe it wouldn't hurt if I kiss you, he said. Maybe it's only if you kiss me -
Maggie Stiefvater
#63. Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he'll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like.
Penny Reid
#64. invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3
Benjamin Graham
#65. You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.
Linda Sue Park
#66. Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
Lewis Carroll
#69. No great undertaking ever looks like it's winnable. That only comes later and only if you are lucky and are willing to fight and have a group of folks around you that are willing to do the same thing, too.
Mark Ruffalo
#70. Is this the point where I sing the little song about Pic and London sittin' in a tree?" "Only if you want the tree shoved up your ass.
Joanna Wylde
#71. You know," he says, peeking inside the bag. "It's okay. Because ham and cheese is my absolute favorite ... and an apple? It's like, the lunch of champions."
I stifle another yawn. "It doesn't get much better than that, right?"
"Only if you were eating with me," he says.
Katie Klein
#72. I've rattled around long enough to have learned one thing: the universe is cold, and cruel, and violent - but only if you choose to look at it that way. For every act of aggression there are a thousand acts of kindness. For every hateful word, a million declarations of love.
James Roberts
#73. It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
Benjamin Carson
#74. You hide a Sun-powered device in darkness - only if you want to know when it is brought out into the light. In other words, the monolith may be some kind of alarm. And we have triggered it.
Arthur C. Clarke
#75. Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
Albert Camus
#76. An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#77. You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
Robert Caro
#78. Only if you follow the realism of science rather than the Hollywood fantasy of romance, will you achieve True Love
Fred Nour
#79. Failure promotes success only if you actually take the time to analyze your mistakes.." "Failure has to be separated from fault, and for many people that requires a bit of deprogramming, as we learn early on that they are one and the same." "In this framework, intention is extremely important.
Amanda Lang
#80. Only if you go forward do your environment, space, and the people you meet change; only then do you gain a new fascination for life, learning, and inspiration.
Ilchi Lee
#81. Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
Taraji P. Henson
#82. Whatever it takes, prove to yourself right now, that you deserve the wildest of dreams that you could ever imagine. BUT ... Only if you are willing to bleed, sweat and work for it.
Joel Brown
#83. True friendship, the kind the whims of life cannot break, cannot stop or limit, true friendship of this sort, you will probably find only once, and then only if you're lucky.
Emil Ostrovski
#84. You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.
Hiroaki Aoki
#85. To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Osho
#87. If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#88. Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.
Daniel Burrus
#89. You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough
Lionel Messi
#90. The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.
David Maister
#91. Call yourself unlucky only if you take up coffin-making and people stop dying.
Idries Shah
#92. Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.
T.F. Hodge
#93. Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.
T. Harv Eker
#94. God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.
Rajneesh
#95. Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.
Ruby Wax
#96. Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands ... I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands.
Thomas Friedman
#98. Who are you?" I find myself asking again. "I am what you need, what you crave, and what you desire. I can give you anything you want, but only if you're willing. If you want me gone, I will go, and you will never have to see me again.
Jaimie Roberts
#99. I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#100. We're going to fuck. Then I think we'll probably do it again. After that I'll buy you dinner, but only if you're nice.
Joanna Wylde
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