Top 100 Quotes About The What Ifs
#1. The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you.
Wally Lamb
#2. Logic doesn't always lead us down the right path. Logic tells us not to take chances. Not to chase after that risk. To ignore the what ifs. I guess part of growing up is deciding when to listen to your head...and when to listen to your heart.
Jenny B. Jones
#3. If every hero stopped to think about all the what-ifs in his path, none of us would ever take one step beyond our own doorways.
Esther M. Friesner
#4. Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.
Emma Stone
#5. Maybe the real freedom is in letting go of the what-ifs. Choosing hopeful expectation over worry that life is going to shortchange you.
Melissa Tagg
#6. Don't focus on the what ifs. Focus on what is.
Vi Keeland
#9. I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.
Dan Groat
#10. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taking.
Jenny Han
#11. Just be careful of the what-ifs, she warns. They'll tumble in your head like laundry that won't dry.
Rodney Ross
#12. Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.
Elin Hilderbrand
#13. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking . I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.
Jenny Han
#14. A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman
#15. You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
Sally Gardner
#16. Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.
Gary Zukav
#17. Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the "What ifs" and "If onlys.
Justin Young
#19. Life was messy, filled with countless worries, questions - what ifs. The real question was not how a person conquered the what ifs, but how one learned to live in spite of them - even when faced with the reality that the answers weren't always pretty.
Angela Lynn
#20. I'm not interested in waiting around and risking the who-knows and the what-ifs and the huge regrets. I want to feel all of it ...
Tahereh Mafi
#21. If you live your life worried about the what-ifs, you're going to live a very desolate life.
Katherine Bogle
#22. P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
Mitch Hedberg
#23. If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.
Eric Bana
#24. fear actually relies on faith...it's simply faith in the wrong things. Fear is placing you faith in "what ifs" rather in than in "God is
Craig Groeschel
#25. Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?
Jennifer Rosen
#26. If you don't have time for your life, what's the point of it all?
Cheryl Richardson
#27. If it all happens naturalistically, what's the need for a God? Can't I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself.
Jeffrey Dahmer
#28. How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?
Charlie Munger
#29. If you focus on the sweeter things of life, that's exactly what you're going to get out of life
St. Germain
#30. If I took fear out of the equation, what would I change about how I spend my days?
Lissa Rankin
#31. The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.
Bill Gothard
#32. What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.
Robert Breault
#33. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?
Alicia Kobishop
#34. If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.
Mark Twain
#35. If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#36. What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
Seth Godin
#37. In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
R. K. Milholland
#38. There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I'd done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his.
Rachel Vincent
#39. I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point?
Shelby Lynne
#40. It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.
Stephen Hawking
#41. And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
Walt Whitman
#42. If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?
Steven J. Lawson
#43. What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?
Tablo
#44. The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.
Dean Potter
#45. If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?
Troy Glaus
#46. When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"
Kristen Stewart
#47. It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.
Steve Martin
#48. How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
Roland Barthes
#49. If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
Alan Hirsch
#50. History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
Elias Canetti
#52. What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#53. I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.
Steven Soderbergh
#54. I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work.
Daymond John
#55. What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?
Oscar Wilde
#56. I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.
Charles Kingsley
#57. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
Joseph Campbell
#58. These people were smiling because they were where they wanted to be. They understood that life is too short for what-ifs and complications. Life, they found, can be as simple as reading the wind.
Brad Herzog
#60. If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#61. If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.
Kevin Cashman
#62. There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in
George Hamilton
#63. How would you behave if you were the best in the world at what you do?
Marie Forleo
#64. If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.
Terence McKenna
#65. And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.
Sarah Dessen
#66. If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
Confucius
#67. If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.
Bonnie Fuller
#68. It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.
Katharine Whitehorn
#69. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
Robert Fripp
#71. The first dollar is the most you will get if you don't love what you are doing.
Ray Kroc
#72. The reality is that if you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been.
James Emery White
#73. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.
Allison Winn Scotch
#74. If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.
Charlemagne
#75. What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?
John Hagee
#76. If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.
Susan Collins
#77. If Jesus were playing the game, I don't know what he'd do.
Lisa Whelchel
#78. Only with the death it comes what's new, if the germen doesn't die, the plant will not be born.
Samael Aun Weor
#79. Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.
Dorotheus Of Gaza
#80. The true measure
of your character
is what you would
do if you were sure
no one would ever
find out.
John C. Maxwell
#81. What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
William Carlos Williams
#82. "What did the pope say? I like the pope. I mean, was it good or bad?"Because if it's good, I like the pope. If it's bad, I don't like the pope.
Donald Trump
#83. In the evening
Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.
John Ashbery
#84. If you don't get excited about the gospel, you've never really grasped what it's telling you.
Derek Prince
#85. It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.
Jim Thompson
#86. ...There are no 'what ifs.' You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you've got or cut her loose.
Michele L. Rivera
#87. We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.
Richard Dawkins
#88. All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!
Bill Maher
#89. What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!
Charles M. Schulz
#90. I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.
Neil Gaiman
#91. What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
Charles Jencks
#92. The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.
Robin Trower
#93. What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?
Robert Capa
#94. That's the thing about 'what ifs'; they don't matter. They don't change anything. All they do is make it unable for you to heal.
Lindy Zart
#95. What I want the most right damn now it to forget, for one day, that I'm your boss so I can make love to you with no regrets and no what-ifs.
Elizabeth Otto
#96. Hotel Food !!, If i eat i will get Obesity, if i don't eat i will get Acidity ... WHAT THE F ... O ... O ... D ... !!
Vinay Kumar
#98. If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right?
Joe Scarborough
#99. If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.
Abbas Kiarostami
#100. I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if ... " and it blossoms into a whole novel.
Jodi Picoult
