Caution Quotes

United will break caution to the wind

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation's stem- cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age

Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

Courage is caution overcome.

In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

The negative cautions of science are never popular.

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security.

It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

Little boats should keep near shore.

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Caution: Poems are sweeter than chocolates.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

I've learned my lesson. I know nothing.

Always count the costs before starting any journey, and never take a step without finding its costs.

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Watch your back. Ain't a thing in armor worth trustin' out there.

Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.