Top 76 Ifs Quotes & Sayings

Now that I'm with RCA, they were able to get radio on board, and it's just really awesome to see their support and 'What Ifs' going to No. 1.

I think GST is a great outcome. There is no ifs and buts about that. It is a transformational event for India.

Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.

Racing is full of 'what-ifs.' Like anything else in life, you learn from your mistakes and move on to the next challenge.

I do not want to give the state and the authorities the right to ban things on the Internet - no ifs.

I don't talk in ifs.

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

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences.

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

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

I think that it's a benefit to have distractions because you don't overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.

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.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

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.

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

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.'"

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

And trust dies from ifs and buts

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

What-ifs are for fools

As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return.

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K.

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.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

There are endless what-ifs that have really made me have an appreciation for my journey and everything I have experienced along the way.

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.

I was a science student and was aiming to be an IFS officer. But, fortunately, my destiny had some other plans for me.

I think for guys who get severely injured and can't move forward, it's because the 'what-ifs' absolutely destroy their recovery.

Sure, there were always questions that lingered, the 'What ifs?' You wondered what might have been if not for the injury? What would my career have looked like and turned out to be? But I had to put my head down and put it behind me.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

Life in L.A. has been amazing. It's been really hard, it's been eventful. It's a lot of what ifs and maybes and being hopeful.

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.

House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

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.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

Do not bother yourself with what ifs

I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.

Yeah, well, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, then we’d never go hungry. (Syn)

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.

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.

One thing about me: I don't try to live out what ifs.

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.

I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

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.

I equals all of the ifs added up over time. The ifs, those are the possibilities; that's infinite for all of us. Every day there are just millions of them. Time, that's finite for each of us; there is no question there. Maybe if you divide choices by the amount of time you have, the real I can emerge, depending upon those choices.

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

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.

How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?

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.