Prudence Quotes
Prudence Quote of the day
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.
For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.