Top 100 Prospect Quotes

#1. After all, education is a grab for a better future, no matter how impossible the prospect may seem at the time.

Terry Hayes

Prospect Quotes #8300
#2. If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.

Robin Hoyle

Prospect Quotes #14607
#3. And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books."
"Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.

Joyce Carol Oates

Prospect Quotes #17580
#4. Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.

H.G.Wells

Prospect Quotes #17971
#5. At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Huston Smith

Prospect Quotes #18742
#6. Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Don Cooper

Prospect Quotes #20487
#7. The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Josh Billings

Prospect Quotes #26179
#8. Your expression dog paddles the entire
meeting but your daydream
ricochets between the prospect of quitting
and painting your room.

Lori Lamothe

Prospect Quotes #35751
#9. To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Prospect Quotes #38092
#10. Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality.

Francesco Petrarca

Prospect Quotes #38724
#11. It was a dizzying prospect - to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made.

Paul Auster

Prospect Quotes #44163
#12. It wasn't going to be hard ... it was going to be impossible. It wouldn't deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn't scare me as much as it used to.

Jasper Fforde

Prospect Quotes #44604
#13. Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

Madame De Stael

Prospect Quotes #50088
#14. Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Alexander Pope

Prospect Quotes #56040
#15. Now we can see a new world coming into view, a world where there is a very real prospect of a New World Order.

George H. W. Bush

Prospect Quotes #56452
#16. The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Prospect Quotes #58161
#17. You mean it's to be peace between you and Elizabeth until after the Tapestry?" cried Georgie, horrified. The prospect of a cessation of hostilities was appalling, for this warfare provided him with the excitement that no other occupation could hope to offer. "Isn't that a bit drastic?

Tom Holt

Prospect Quotes #60913
#18. If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

Simon Conway Morris

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#19. Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

Thomas Sowell

Prospect Quotes #63086
#20. The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

Marc Ostrofsky

Prospect Quotes #75950
#21. Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Prospect Quotes #77578
#22. The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

Francis Harold Cook

Prospect Quotes #81359
#23. I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

Henry David Thoreau

Prospect Quotes #82038
#24. As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.

Abraham Lincoln

Prospect Quotes #82522
#25. Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and that is what every sufferer is - is for them an enchanting thing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Prospect Quotes #89303
#26. The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.

Barbara Kingsolver

Prospect Quotes #95351
#27. The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

George Leigh Mallory

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#28. Peace is not an easy prospect
it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

Ozzie Zehner

Prospect Quotes #99407
#29. I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.

John Hawkes

Prospect Quotes #100334
#30. ...drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.

Iain Sinclair

Prospect Quotes #107937
#31. It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

P.G. Wodehouse

Prospect Quotes #108383
#32. I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.

Jenny Slate

Prospect Quotes #108423
#33. Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

Jennifer Paynter

Prospect Quotes #113729
#34. Change, no matter how small, requires loss. And the prospect of loss is far more powerful than potential gain. It's difficult to imagine what a change will do to us. This is why we need stories so desperately.

Shawn Coyne

Prospect Quotes #115209
#35. And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.

Nora Roberts

Prospect Quotes #128631
#36. A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing ...

Lucy R. Lippard

Prospect Quotes #134373
#37. In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been developed, but there was no prospect of practical blue light emitters, even in the '70s.

Isamu Akasaki

Prospect Quotes #134535
#38. The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.

Ted Chiang

Prospect Quotes #142002
#39. The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.

Tessa Jowell

Prospect Quotes #145839
#40. You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!'
'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved

Georgette Heyer

Prospect Quotes #157159
#41. Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.

Timi Nadela

Prospect Quotes #159912
#42. Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

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#43. The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

David Hume

Prospect Quotes #165463
#44. Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

Zig Ziglar

Prospect Quotes #170751
#45. Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Joseph Addison

Prospect Quotes #174415
#46. It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

John Jay

Prospect Quotes #174882
#47. Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

Gavin De Becker

Prospect Quotes #179190
#48. Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

Cassandra Clare

Prospect Quotes #181938
#49. It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

Larry Williams

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#50. I felt dichotomously dismayed and dazedly giddy by the prospect.

Penny Reid

Prospect Quotes #193583
#51. The grandest mountain prospect that the eye can range over is appointed to annihilation. The smallest human interest that the pure heart can feel is appointed to immortality.

Wilkie Collins

Prospect Quotes #195468
#52. Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.

David Gemmell

Prospect Quotes #200036
#53. I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

Ron Wyden

Prospect Quotes #209157
#54. What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

Herman Gorter

Prospect Quotes #211947
#55. If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment.

Eric Maskin

Prospect Quotes #212911
#56. Is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests:

Friedrich Nietzsche

Prospect Quotes #216161
#57. I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

George Steiner

Prospect Quotes #225461
#58. Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.

Malcolm Turnbull

Prospect Quotes #230057
#59. Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.

Ernst Cassirer

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#60. A prospect is with us and he stands by his bike as Dad, Eli and Pigpen take off their cuts and lay them on the back. Pigpen flashes that I've-been-judged-mentally-insane-by-a-court smile at the prospect.

Katie McGarry

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#61. The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood was one of desolation and peace, a glorious past recalled, and now thankfully put to rest.

Stephanie Barron

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#62. No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

Edward Teller

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#63. It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.

Al Ries

Prospect Quotes #264882
#64. The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Samuel Johnson

Prospect Quotes #265788
#65. My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Cory Booker

Prospect Quotes #274050
#66. You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.

Barack Obama

Prospect Quotes #277520
#67. The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

DeForest Soaries

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#68. Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

Richard M. Weaver

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#69. You've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

Maria Edgeworth

Prospect Quotes #282888
#70. Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.

Bob Mayer

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#71. If you are trying to be creative with a hiring manager, prospect or recruiter and you fall, they will never help you up.

Paul Babicki

Prospect Quotes #294578
#72. We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer.

Chris Murray

Prospect Quotes #305398
#73. America provided things that form the foundation of who we used to be: the prospect and potential of hope, mercy, and freedom for strangers who came carrying not much more than a determination to survive in a big country with a bigger heart.

Mike Barnicle

Prospect Quotes #310881
#74. Iraq has been successfully demonized as if everybody who lives there is Saddam Hussein. In the build-up to this attack on Iraq, journalists have almost universally excluded the prospect of civilian deaths, the numbers of people who would die, because those people don't matter.

John Pilger

Prospect Quotes #311628
#75. There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.

Autre Ne Veut

Prospect Quotes #312594
#76. Imminent death didn't terrify her as much as did the prospect of having lived a life in perpetual retreat, a life that would amount now to so much less than she'd ever hoped, ...

Dean Koontz

Prospect Quotes #314322
#77. Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.

Bob Burg

Prospect Quotes #314620
#78. Never forget a man who holds a secret holds power. A Chinese proverb says: "If women want to keep a secret, one of them must die." What a splendid prospect, I thought! So far I have not heard one single encouraging word about this job.

John Eppler

Prospect Quotes #316712
#79. There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Alain De Botton

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#80. I didn't mind that she wanted to make the place ours, but swear to Christ, the FedEx delivery guy was stopping at the gates to the clubhouse so often, I think he was considering becoming a prospect.

Nicole Jacquelyn

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#81. To panic at the prospect of being involved in what your dream seem to indicate is normal

Sunday Adelaja

Prospect Quotes #328650
#82. The prospect of being lonely but right - dedicating your life to something that no one else believes in - is already hard. The prospect of being lonely and wrong can be unbearable.

Peter Thiel

Prospect Quotes #329768
#83. Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

Charles Simmons

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#84. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity; and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Prospect Quotes #336597
#85. Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.

Elfriede Jelinek

Prospect Quotes #337322
#86. As a small business owner, you must sell or you will go out of business. Therefore, you must prospect (it's an integral part of the process). You have to bring people to your business, not just wait for them to show up.

Diane Helbig

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#87. I'm getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#88. It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is much less inviting.

Gretchen Rubin

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#89. From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Nikola Tesla

Prospect Quotes #354607
#90. The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

Henry David Thoreau

Prospect Quotes #354668
#91. Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

John Crowe Ransom

Prospect Quotes #354882
#92. Positioning is not what you do to a product. Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

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#93. When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

Gordon Brown

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#94. Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.

Charles Lamb

Prospect Quotes #366781
#95. The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.

Bill McKibben

Prospect Quotes #367999
#96. Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mark Twain

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#97. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Brian Eno

Prospect Quotes #378636
#98. If you can't be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything

Robert Johnson

Prospect Quotes #387219
#99. The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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#100. I couldn't help but feel a little smug at the prospect of finding my phone this way. I was going to beat Dad at his own game, using the ability he didn't believe I had.

Ha! Take that, you muggle!

K.J. McPike

Prospect Quotes #398997

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