If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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Today in my World History class, a student said, 'Well, we thought that by mentioning the East Indies, you meant the British East India Company'. To which the Teacher promptly replied 'Ah, so you were mislead by stupidity'.
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At the stumbling of a horse, the fall of a tile, the slightest pin prick, let us promptly chew on this: Well, what if it were death itself? An...
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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!
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
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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.
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A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
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1 Corinthians 2:9:
However, as it is written: 'What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived – these things God has prepared for those who love him' –
(NIV)
But, on the contrary, as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]. [Isa. 64:4; 65:17.](AMP)
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
(KJV)
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
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During a very busy life I have often been asked, How did you manage to do it all? The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.
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