Top 100 Sayings About What Ifs
#1. 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
#2. The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you.
Wally Lamb
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.
Obert Skye
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?
Shannon Celebi
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Never Kill your What Ifs,
But first be Grateful for What Is.
Drishti Bablani
#18. ...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
#19. 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
#20. Don't focus on the what ifs. Focus on what is.
Vi Keeland
#21. What-ifs went around and around in her head. What if Mama
Francine Rivers
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. But that's the thing with the what -if game- you really never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way. Because underneath the surface what-ifs are much worse ones.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#27. 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
#28. What-ifs multiplied like a combat-ready squad of Star Trek Tribbles: cute, furry, and armed with bazookas.
Barbara Claypole White
#29. I hate that its my favorite thing to watch her, because it shouldn't be. It triggers all these what-ifs in my head, and my mind begins imagining things it shouldn't be imagining ...
Colleen Hoover
#30. Sometimes people walk out of your life never to return, and all you have left are bitter memories and what ifs. And though you try to move on and forget them, they become regrets that cut deeper than the sharpest knife, slashing you over and over again.
Mia Asher
#31. Assign a deadline to your biggest objectives and stick to it so they don't become just another litany of "what ifs" and sad regrets.
Carlos Wallace
#32. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taking.
Jenny Han
#33. Just be careful of the what-ifs, she warns. They'll tumble in your head like laundry that won't dry.
Rodney Ross
#34. In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.
Jeff Greenfield
#35. Theatre is pure teleportation by means of suspension.
It's a voyage into the archives of the human imagination.
A passport to all what ifs.
Natasha Tsakos
#36. Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.
Bethany Hamilton
#37. CHRISTINE: I'd rather have a pile of mistakes than a handful of what ifs.
Bijou Hunter
#38. Do you think I'll let it go, that I'll hide from it because you, who's anything but a coward, is afraid of what ifs?
Nora Roberts
#39. That's life, little one - lots of little maybes and what ifs all lined up in a row. And if you put your mind to following some of them that never came about, you'll get lost and not find your way back to the way it really is.
Mindy McGinnis
#40. Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
Julian Baggini
#41. 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
#42. Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream
of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete
lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs,
Glenn Kurtz
#43. Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
Andy Stanley
#45. 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
#46. A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman
#47. Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.
Justin Cronin
#48. I promised myself no regrets," she whispered into the darkness. "No what-ifs, no second guessing. I promised myself that I was going to live my life, instead of always taking the safe route.
Susan Mallery
#49. How impossibly untangleable is the tangle of what ifs.
Nicola Morgan
#50. You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
Sally Gardner
#51. I don't see a gray area when it comes to writers. You either are, or you are not. You give it every ounce of your being, or you end up with blank pages and 'What ifs'.
J.B. Jenn
#52. 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
#53. God is so much bigger than our 'what ifs' that he can turn them into 'why nots
Gary Rohrmayer
#54. The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#55. Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the "What ifs" and "If onlys.
Justin Young
#57. When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"
Cate Marvin
#58. What-ifs are kind of like ex-boyfriends. The more attention you give them, the more likely they are to stalk you and show up in you bedroom closet when you are getting out of the shower.
Kristen Day
#59. 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
#60. There's a million what-ifs in life. You just have to keep yourself from thinking about the bad ones.
Juliette Fay
#61. 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
#62. If you live your life worried about the what-ifs, you're going to live a very desolate life.
Katherine Bogle
#63. She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.
Judi Fennell
#65. P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
Mitch Hedberg
#66. If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.
Eric Bana
#67. People keep saying, How'd you get power? Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.
David Miscavige
#68. It's hard to stay on purpose if we don't know what our purpose is.
Sam Horn
#69. I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.
Lady Gaga
#70. If you are using search data to decide what's fashionable, you are not fashionable.
Peter Sagal
#71. Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?
Jennifer Rosen
#72. If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.
Simon Baker
#73. If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn't matter what else we get right.
Randy Alcorn
#76. If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?
Hal Varian
#77. If you don't have time for your life, what's the point of it all?
Cheryl Richardson
#78. 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
#79. How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?
Charlie Munger
#80. Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
Yasmin Mogahed
#81. It doesn't matter if you have something greater to say per say, just enjoy what you're doing.
Lights
#82. I don't care what you say about me if I don't find you physically attractive.
Amanda Bynes
#83. If you focus on the sweeter things of life, that's exactly what you're going to get out of life
St. Germain
#84. You can't be everything. Nobody is everything. You just do what you do, and you try to do that as well as you can. And if somebody doesn't like it, too bad.
Vinnie Colaiuta
#85. If you haven't had your life what have you had?
Henry James
#86. If I took fear out of the equation, what would I change about how I spend my days?
Lissa Rankin
#87. Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.
Dave Ramsey
#88. If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?
Brian Tracy
#89. The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.
Bill Gothard
#90. 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
#91. If this is what it's going to take to satisfy everybody, then let's do it and move on.
Bob Boughner
#92. What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?
Gloria Steinem
#93. Can you imagine what you could do, if you did all that you can?
Gary Ryan
#94. If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.
Mark Twain
#95. Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.
Lil' Wayne
#96. 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
#97. Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
Terry Pratchett
#98. What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
Seth Godin
#99. In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
R. K. Milholland
#100. If you make it, great. If you miss it, what's there to be afraid of?
Kobe Bryant
