Quotes with promptly

Quotes 1 till 7 of 7.

• Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

  Lord Mansfield
  British barrister, politician and judge (1705 - 1793)
  - +

  +1
• America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

  John W. Gardner
  American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
  - +

   0
• Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
  - +

   0
• Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
  - +

   0
• I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
  - +

   0
• One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
  - +

   0
• The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

  Arthur J. Goldberg
  American jurist and politician
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• self-destructive
• overwhelmingly
• wastepaper
• threatened
• guarantees
• compelling

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations