Quotes & Sayings About No What Ifs

If I was in a horrorfilm I'd die first, because I would have no idea what's going on. — Niall Horan

They said do what you want, because if we don't like it, no-one will hear it. — Ringo Starr

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

All these "ifs" fill our minds with anxious thoughts and make us wonder constantly what to do and what to say in case something should happen in the future. Much, if not most, of our suffering is connected with these preoccupations. Possible career changes, possible family conflicts, possible illnesses, possible disasters, and a possible nuclear holocaust make us anxious, fearful, suspicious, greedy, nervous, and morose. They prevent us from feeling a real inner freedom. Since we are always preparing for eventualities, we seldom fully trust the moment. It is no exaggeration to say that much human energy is invested in these fearful preoccupations. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination. — Christopher

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out? — Charles Caleb Colton

What would you do if money was no object? — Alan Watts

The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life. — Eckhart Tolle

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it? — Alan Hirsch

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works. — Seneca The Younger

I'm only afraid of dying if I'm to be held accountable for what I did while living. If there's no God or reckoning, I'm like, whew! — Dana Gould

I have a billion what-ifs and no way forward. — Miranda Kenneally

Only worry about what you absolutely know about,' Mr. Worthington said to me, putting my mind back where it belonged. 'That's the key. Worrying about anything else is just a waste of time and emotion. I know that seems obvious but honestly, the more information you have, the less your imagination can run away with you so the secret is to find out as much as you can about what your particular problem is ... and you'll be amazed at how this simplifies things. You no longer have to worry about the what ifs. — Sarah-Kate Lynch

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet. — Ama Ata Aidoo

Butch, let me help you."
He cursed. "What if-"
"What ifs don't cut it." She took a deep breath. "I won't lie. I'm scared. But I don't want to turn my back on you and you're a fool to try and make me."
He shook his head, respect in his eyes. "You always been this courageous?"
"No. But it appears that for you, I guess I am. So are you going to let me in?"
"I want to. I feel like I need to. — J.R. Ward

If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done. — Hank Aaron

With Bruford, the album was One Of A Kind. All-instrumental, it possessed the kind of focused vision that allowed for no ifs or buts. With the unnerving confidence of youth, it had This Is What We Do And This Is How We Do It stamped all over it. — Bill Bruford

And what does this question Why imply? It implies ( ... ) dissatisfaction, disquiet, a sense that all is not well. In a state of perfect contentment there would be no need or room for this irritant little word. History begins only at the point where things go wrong; history is born only with trouble, with perplexity, with regret. So that hard on the heels of the word Why comes the sly and wistful word If. If it had not been for ... If only ... Were it not ... Those useless Ifs of history. — Graham Swift

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to. — Basil W. Maturin

Never be afraid to do what's right. If no one ever says anything, nothing ever changes. — Chris Kluwe

No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up. — Doris Day

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

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises. — John Calvin

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

There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in — George Hamilton

What if when they called a war, no one went? — Abbie Hoffman

...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

Once you are no longer afraid, once you are no longer prisoner to the what-ifs and the if-onlys, there's a pocket of calm in the middle of the craziness. As if you can see things as they really are instead of just how you wish them to be, or how they could be, if this place - this life - wasn't so messed up, so contrary. — Gina Linko

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? — Alan Watts

If you have no inner freedom, what kind of freedom do you expect? — Arturo Graf

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself. — John Kenneth Galbraith

What is government if word's have no meaning. — Jared Lee Loughner

Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value. — Gary L. Francione

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty? — Henry Ward Beecher

I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother. — Vera Farmiga

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

If you eliminate what no longer works, you illuminate what does. — Cheryl Richardson

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him. — Max Anders

The true measure
of your character
is what you would
do if you were sure
no one would ever
find out. — John C. Maxwell

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

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all. — John H. Lienhard

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength. — Oswald Chambers