Quotes about Prospect

Novelist

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

Creativity - Earth - Ecstasy - Influence - Prospect - Youth

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writer

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.

Animals - Enjoying - Food - Mornings - Prospect - Sensuality - Wellness

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

Eternity - Flow - Prospect - Realization

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Consciousness - Gratification - Ignorance - Knowledge - Limits - Open - Paradox - Prospect

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John Rawls

Actor, Educator, Philosopher

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

Ability - Achievement - Aspiration - Culture - Equality - Expectation - Motivation - Prospect

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Amartya Sen

Economist, Philosopher

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.

Culture - Diversity - Humanism - Pessimism - Prospect - Sometimes - Taking - World

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

Nobility - Norway - Prodigy - Prospect

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

Plan - Prospect

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

Actions - Human - Progression - Prospect

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Louis Pasteur

Biologist, Microbiologist, Chemist

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.

Fertility - Finding - Linguistics - Prospect - Writing

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Consciousness - Enlightenment - Ignorance - Limits - Open - Paradox - Prospect

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

Extreme - Finding - Lie - Man - Misfortune - Prospect - Success

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John F. Kennedy

Former President of the United States

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

Prospect

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writer

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

Prospect - Wellness

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Warren Buffett

Business Magnate, Investor, Speaker

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

Investment - Prospect

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.

Accident - Blessing - Gentleness - Prospect

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Brian Tracy

Author, Public Speaker

Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.

Activity - Care - Follower - Present - Prospect

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Certainty - Character - Curiosity - Happiness - Permanence - Production - Progression - Prospect - Vigor

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

Giving - Pleasure - Prospect

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Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

Danger - Glory - Loss - Meaning - Prospect

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