Best Prompts Quotes
59 Prompts quotes by 51 unique authors
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Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
— George Santayana
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It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.
— Robert Breault
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Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn…
— Abdul-Qadir Gilani
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The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar?s…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured…
— Luc de Clapiers
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No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why…
— Emily Oster
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In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the…
— Paul Fussell
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
— Andre Gide
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
— Eric Hoffer
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every…
— Samuel Johnson
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty,…
— Ron Paul
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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live.…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
— Muhammad Yunus
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He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval,…
— Emily Bronte
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
— Alexandre Dumas
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Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us…
— Michel de Montaigne
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If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature…
— L. Frank Baum
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I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our…
— William Wilberforce
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
— Eric Hoffer
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For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and…
— Albert Einstein
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