Ifs Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, just be.

— Leo Tolstoy

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be happy.

— Leo Tolstoy

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

— Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

— Leo Tolstoy

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

— Leo Tolstoy

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

— Leo Tolstoy

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

— Leo Tolstoy

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to…

— Leo Tolstoy

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

— Leo Tolstoy

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your…

— Leo Tolstoy

Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something…

— Leo Tolstoy

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take…

— Leo Tolstoy

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found…

— Leo Tolstoy

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of…

— Leo Tolstoy

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not…

— Leo Tolstoy

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am…

— Leo Tolstoy

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating…

— Leo Tolstoy

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,'…

— Leo Tolstoy

Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You…

— Leo Tolstoy

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always…

— Leo Tolstoy

Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of…

— Leo Tolstoy

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act…

— Leo Tolstoy

A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in…

— Leo Tolstoy

If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.…

— Leo Tolstoy

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

— Leo Tolstoy

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without…

— Leo Tolstoy

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it…

— Leo Tolstoy

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So…

— Leo Tolstoy

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you…

— Leo Tolstoy

Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following,…

— Leo Tolstoy

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was…

— Leo Tolstoy

If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no…

— Leo Tolstoy