Prompts Quotes
59 quotes by 51 authors
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
— Samuel Johnson
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The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
— Samuel Johnson
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The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of…
— John of the Cross
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Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.
— Tony Dungy
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being,…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly…
— Thomas Jefferson
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True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas…
— David O. McKay
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It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s…
— Mary Beard
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The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.
— David Berlinski
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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
— Gary Blair
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The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the…
— Elaine Scarry
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Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part…
— Neville Chamberlain
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Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
— Francesco Guicciardini
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