What Ifs Quotes & Sayings

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

What good is love if you never ask anything of it? — Robert Breault

What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be. — Obert Skye

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

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

If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say? — Geneen Roth

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

Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better. — Danny Kaye

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can. — Thomas Jefferson

If you DON'T have diversity around your boardroom table, then what is wrong with you? — Rachel Sklar

I would much rather have somebody say, "You know what? I just didn't like what you were doing," then say, "They didn't know what they were doing." I know what I'm doing. If it's going to be bad, or if it's great, it's me, in either case. — J.H. Wyman

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing. — Katharine Whitehorn

The "what ifs" and "should haves" will eat your brain. — John O' Callaghan

You won't have to watch what you say if you watch what you think. — Bill Johnson

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it. — T. S. Eliot

What good are images if people understand them? — Jon Stewart

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see — Jewel

If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become. — Wendell Johnson

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing. — Jim Rogers

If someone is brought in for an interview, for example, and is asked about their views on things, but has posted things that are completely contrary to the interview, frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview. — Adam Schiff

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get. — Clare Boothe Luce

If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station? — Hal Varian

If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ? — Yasmin Ahmad

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy. — Mokshagundam Visvesvaray

You're a fucking idiot, Carter. That girl has been in love with you since the moment she saw you. You were her childhood love. You were her fucking god. She might've wiped your asshole if you asked her to. Chicks don't move on from the same kind of love she had for you. They might live with it, they might learn to love other guys, but they don't move on. Inside, the what-ifs consume them. — R.J. Lewis

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing — Brian Eno

Never Kill your What Ifs,
But first be Grateful for What Is. — Drishti Bablani

If you want to keep getting what you're getting, keep doing what you're doing. — Les Brown

If we really knew what God had for us, we would pray more. — Karen Wheaton

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

If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree. — Warren Jeffs

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn't know what to make of me. — Jeremy Scahill

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened — Roger Zelazny

If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success — Richard Branson

If I dwell on what I don't want, then I will get more of it. I affirm only the good in Life. — Louise Hay

You attract what you are, not what you want. So if you want it then reflect it! — Tony Gaskins

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

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to. — Yasmin Mogahed

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything — Jacques Derrida

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

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts. — Bill Gothard

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

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same. — Bruno Mars

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing — Arsene Wenger

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership. — Marcus Buckingham

If you make it, great. If you miss it, what's there to be afraid of? — Kobe Bryant

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did. — Lisa Kleypas

Story to me is life. It's purpose. We as humans have an the opportunity and obligation to live the most truthful story ever told, unfortunately so few ever live truthfully. They don't follow their dreams and live lives filled with regrets and "what ifs". I make it my purpose to pursue the dreams and life that I want. It's very hard, but at the end of the day, when people read the story of my life, they will say, "He was true to himself". — Aaron Denius Garcia

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present. — Mark Twain

If Bruce Jenner says he's woman then I'm not gonna argue with him. I know what obviously and biologically he is. — Rick Santorum

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

If you'll do now what other people won't, you'll do later what other people can't. — Larry Burkett

What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh? — Donald Glover

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else? — Tennessee Williams

If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you. — Morris Dees

If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right? — Joe Scarborough

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers? — Freeman Patterson

Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you. — Jim Palmer

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you. — Hayley Williams

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

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

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else. — Richard Russo

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

Things will come to you when the time is right and I say just go for it. If you love what you want to do, just keep on going. — Bailee Madison

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is. — Danielle LaPorte

The Peacemaker, Ken Sande suggests that a biblically based request for forgiveness will involve practicing the Seven A's:
(1) Addressing everyone involved;
(2) Avoiding all ifs, buts, and maybes;
(3) Admitting your own sin specifically;
(4) Acknowledging sorrow for the way your sin has offended God and hurt the other person;
(5) Accepting the fact there may be consequences because of your sin and being willing to accept what those consequences may be as part of the Romans 8:28 process;
(6) Altering your sinful behavior to godly behavior and thinking; and
(7) Asking specifically for forgiveness from everyone who has been hurt by your sin; — Ken Sande

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation. — Bruno Bettelheim

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. — C.S. Lewis

What would you do if you had to choose? — Gayle Forman

What kind of power was it if it would never be used? — Chinua Achebe

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine. — Ray Winstone

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give. — Leo Buscaglia

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next. — Christina Aguilera

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. — John Cage

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not — Passenger

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew. — Richard Chenevix Trench

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They just change. Their body changes. Their abilities - the things they do that make them who they are - leave, sometimes temporarily, sometimes forever. Every day they wake up with that big what if?
And nothing is scarier than a life filled with what ifs - living by day without predictability and control. Some people end up losing feeling. Some have uncontrollable spasms. Some can't function. Some end up blind or in a wheelchair. Some end up bedridden and paralyzed.
It's hard to know who "some people" will be. — Lindsey Leavitt

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

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If an animal is named after what it eats, how interesting is it? — Karl Pilkington

[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like. — Greta Garbo

What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley. — Mitch Albom

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves. — Kevin Cashman

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

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before. — Herbie Hancock

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

If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing. — Jack Valenti

I'm all about what happens organically. If something happens, it was meant to happen. — Kay Panabaker

That's what dating is for, after all - to learn if you're compatible with someone. — Nicholas Sparks

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil — Socrates

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different. — Julian Baggini

If this is what it's going to take to satisfy everybody, then let's do it and move on. — Bob Boughner

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

There's nothing better than a 200 lb snatch, if you know what I mean. — Brad Sherwood

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing. — Phil McGraw

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out. — John Goddard

If you do what you fear, you won't fear what you do. — Gordon Morton McGregor

If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand. — Doris Lessing