Prompts Quotes:

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

- Hannah More

source: Hannah More (1853). “Poems, sacred dramas, essays”, p.188

topic: Spirit, Occasions, Prompts

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.

- Robert Breault

topic: Trust, Persons, Prompts

Oh, I am a prompt person!

- Josh Hutcherson

source: "Josh Hutcherson on The Hunger Games' Peeta: 'I've Never Felt More Right for a Character in My Whole Life'". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. November 15, 2011.

topic: Persons, Prompts

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.229

topic: Prompts, Urgent

Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.

- Bob Goff

topic: Jesus, Surround Yourself, Prompts, Who Jesus Is

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

- Lee Strobel

source: Twitter post from Mar 20, 2017

topic: Christian, Atheist, Atheism, Prompts

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Winning, Men, Effort, Prompts, Actual Life

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 do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1972). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

topic: Spiritual, Voice, Feelings, Inner Voice, Positive Feelings

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

- George Washington

source: George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.308

topic: Happiness, Practice, Moral, Moral Duty, Prompts

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

topic: Errors, Confession, Made, Prompts

He [the Lord] will always hear your prayers and will invariably answer them. However, His answers will seldom come while you are on your knees praying, even when you may plead for an immediate response. Rather, He will prompt you in quiet moments when the Spirit can most effectively touch your mind and heart. Hence, you should find periods of quiet time to recognize when you are being instructed and strengthened.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Prayer, Heart, Quiet Moments, Quiet Time, Prompts

If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.

- Washington Irving

topic: Inspirational Life, Heart, Sadness, Prompts, Heavy Heart

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

- William James

source: William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.50, Harvard University Press

topic: Lying, Opportunity, Thinking, Prompts

Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

- Adam Smith

source: 'Essays on Philosophical Subjects' (1795) 'The History of Astronomy' sect. 3, para. 3

topic: Philosophy, Knowledge, Discovery, Prompts

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

- John Gay

source: John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.21

topic: Risk, Fiction, Tongue, Prompts

Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

topic: Loss, People, Identity, Loss Of Identity, Prompts

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

- Adam Smith

source: 1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.

topic: Desire, Principles, Graves, Prompts

Too many people are apt to redeem their profits too quickly. In a huge bull market they wind up with piddling profits, only to watch their former holdings soar. That usually prompts them into making mistakes later when, believing that the market owes them some money, they buy at the wrong time at much higher levels.

- Martin Zweig

topic: Mistake, Believe, Wind, Prompts, Bull Markets

Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!

- Mike Nichols

topic: Crush, Mother, Communication, Taste Buds, Prompts

Where food trucks are concerned, nothing's better than having a whole flock of them at one location. Competition not only improves the quality of the food, it prompts these rolling lunch wagons to lower prices and offer specials, too.

- Robert Sietsema

topic: Lunch, Competition, Quality, Food Trucks, Prompts

The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.37, Broadway Books

topic: Men, Race, Support, Prompts

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.90

topic: Soul, Body, Hunger And Thirst, Prompts

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

- Albert Schweitzer

source: Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.237, Henry Holt and Company

topic: Life, Ethics, Reverence, Prompts, Recompense

There is no finer way to demonstrate love of God than by serving Him in the positions to which we may be called. Occasionally, the reward for that service will be prompt, and we'll see the light in the eyes of the person whom we have helped. Other times, however, the Lord will let us wait a little while and let our reward come another way.

- Thomas S. Monson

source: Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

topic: Eye, Light, Waiting, Prompts

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

- Susanne Katherina Langer

topic: Common Sense, Common, Prompts

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Lapses, Answers, Tongue, Prompts

It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.

- Edward Jenks

source: Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

topic: Stars, Character, Men, Common Law, Prompts

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

- Maximilien Robespierre

topic: Justice, Terror, Prompts

Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Self, Focus, Flow, Prompts

People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

- Michael Copps

topic: Sorry, People, Memorial, Broadband, Prompts

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

- John Kinsella

source: "Vermin: A Notebook" by John Kinsella, www.poetryfoundation.org. December 1, 2009.

topic: Political, Ethical, Aids, Prompts

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 whole body wants to reproduce the person.

- Elaine Scarry

source: Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.4, Princeton University Press

topic: Beautiful, Children, Plato, Plato S, Symposium

The Armenians will willingly harbor revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.

- Mark Sykes

topic: Pride, Race, Giving, Singularity, Prompts

Researchers have known for some time now that the cornerstone of all degenerative conditions, including brain disorders, is inflammation. But what they didn’t have documented until now are the instigators of that inflammation—the first missteps that prompt this deadly reaction. And what they are finding is that gluten, and a high-carbohydrate diet for that matter, are among the most prominent stimulators of inflammatory pathways that reach the brain.

- David Perlmutter

topic: Brain, Gluten, Matter, Instigators, Carbohydrates

The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.

- Peter Akinola

source: Communique on the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill, 2006.

topic: Sex, Law, Ideas, Prompts, Sex Relationships

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

source: "Finding Your J Spot: Joy in Midlife and Beyond". Book by Peter Brill and David Debin, 2006.

topic: Opportunity, Risk, Caution, Taking Risks, Prompts

When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's 'now or never.'

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

topic: Gratitude, Jobs, Children, Now Or Never, Transience

The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.86, Random House

topic: Hate, Sight, Opposites, Prompts

My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.

- Karl Blossfeldt

topic: World, Links, Plant, Prompts

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

- Gretchen Rubin

source: FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Sep 13, 2015

topic: Happiness, Mma, People, Happy Times, Make Yourself Happy

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

- Robert Fripp

topic: Morning, Views, Shining, Concern For Others, Pernicious

The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

- William James

source: William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.68, Harvard University Press

topic: Attention, Unchanging, Made, Prompts

You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on the computer]. By learning a game, you're getting close to the kid and gaining insight into ways of learning. The kid can see this happening and feels respected, so it fosters the relationship between you and the kid.

- Seymour Papert

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Children, Kids, Games, Prompts

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

- Augustus Hare

topic: Mother, Children, Giving, Prompts

You should know that what wakes me up at night, what gets me running fast in the morning, and, frankly, what prompts me to lose any semblance of my habitual reserve is the conviction that work doesn't have to be this grim. We can do better.

- Marcus Buckingham

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Running, Morning, Night, Prompts, Running Fast

The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the landscape leads us in the direction of disorder and death. They are categorically evil. These dispositions are destroying our only home-planet and other organisms that share it. They defeat our need to care about where we are and the things in place there. They prompt us to feel that civilization is not worth carrying on. They rob us of our identity and our will to live. These things are not about personal taste or style.

- James Howard Kunstler

source: Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

topic: Home, Civilization, Evil, Incoherence, Personal Taste

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2009). “How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.59, Hachette UK

topic: Dream, Thinking, People, Prompts, Mind Set

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Hope, People, Opiates, Prompts

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

- Alexandre Dumas

source: Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.133, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

topic: Mean, Expectations, Devotion, Prompts

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, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

- Emily Bronte

topic: Animal, Winning, Guarding, Prompts

He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.

- Spencer Johnson

topic: Life, Change, Action, Prompts

Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.

- R. A. Torrey

source: R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.159, Christian Publishing House

topic: Kings, Lying, Blessing, Blessedness, Prompts

Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign over accidents and birth anomalies, or does the devil set the world's agenda? How do I counsel people who are despairing of their condition?

- Joni Eareckson Tada

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Pain, Heart, People, Prompts, Heart Wrenching