We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time. — Epictetus
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts — Buddha
Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us. — Walter E. Williams
People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature. — Jared Kushner
Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously. — Yi Sun-sin
Be always sure your are right, then go ahead. — Davy Crockett
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. — Colin Powell
Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well. — Mother Teresa
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.' — Barbara Billingsley
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. — Robert Fulghum
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers. — Michelangelo
I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care. — Jean Rhys
I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off. — Ashley Graham
When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath. — Alphonsus Liguori
I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words. — Leopold Sedar Senghor
Be Cautious Quotes
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side? — Ronald Reagan
You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative. — George Lois
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We should be very cautious in what we expect of our prescience. — Howard Marks
While cautious about supplements due to isolated compounds, considering methylated multivitamins might be beneficial. — Gary Brecka
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. — Meg Cabot
I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious. — Jennifer Ellison
I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that. — Gucci Mane
The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion. — Carl Schmitt
Being Cautious Quotes
There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious. — Chrissie Wellington
America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety. — Ronald Reagan
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. — Mark Twain
It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag. — Ronald Reagan
I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not. — Edgar Allan Poe
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything. — Elizabeth Loftus
If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious. — John Eliot
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. — Horace
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it. — Andrew Solomon
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. — Susan B. Anthony
Be Very Careful Quotes
To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history. — Christine Caine
I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating. — Assata Shakur
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. — Jean Kerr
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations — Winston Churchill
Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU! — John Assaraf
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand. — Maria Callas
Reciprocity is a natural human dynamic that exists in us because we’re humans. Some people are very guarded about it, so we have to be careful about how we trigger it. If we ask, we tend to owe. — Chris Voss
You can become rich, you can become strong, you can take care of your loved ones and enjoy the fact it will be very difficult. — Andrew Tate
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. — P. J. O'Rourke
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas. — Dougray Scott
Being Too Cautious Quotes
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. — Jawaharlal Nehru
It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity. — Yoshijiro Umezu
It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon. — Dick Vermeil
One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious. — Bahya ibn Paquda
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing. — John Lubbock
I think it's important to let kids be kids and be cautious about accelerated sexuality as pressure to mature too quickly. My hackles go up when I see a teacher making kids feel like they are older, special, mature. Let kids be kids. — Jessica Valenti
I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in that after a while. I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked. — Adam Braver
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me. — Babe Paley
As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud. — Charles Caleb Colton
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not. — Charles Caleb Colton
Always Be Aware Quotes
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now. — Marcel Proust
For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well. — Matthieu Ricard
Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves. — Swami Satchidananda
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. — Bill Pullman
As a negotiator you should always be aware of which side, at any given moment, feels they have the most to lose if negotiations collapse. — Chris Voss
Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live. — Sandra Day O'Connor
I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee. — Robin Gibb
We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty. — Margaret Thatcher
...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance. — Margaret Mead
I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it. — Sadie Frost
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. — Joseph Addison
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives — Byron Katie
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom. — Edmund Burke
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life. — Anna Quindlen
O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys, at the expected warning,
To joy and play. — Robert Burns
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it. — Elbert Hubbard
And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. — Philip Massinger
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. — Gary Blair
Over Cautious Quotes
So many people there are in politics that they're overly cautious about laughing at stuff. They're so damned concerned about what everyone else is thinking. What are they worried about? Nobody ever walked into a show as a bleeding heart liberal and had a comedian undo 30 years of life experience. — Bill Burr
Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little. — Friedrich Schiller
I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless. — Peter Hollingworth
I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far. — Don Nickles
Many school administrators are so cautious that they have erroneously erased all traces of religion. Some have run roughshod over teachers. Others have attempted to squelch all discussion of religion. — Mathew Staver
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue. — Theodore Parker
The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well. — Tim Lebbon
At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens. — Richard Aldington
Caution Quotes
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie
Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens. — Kano Jigoro
I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up. — Keith Green
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. — George Washington
Don't put your face in chicken feed if you don't want to get pecked by the hens. — Moroccan Proverbs
Even if you put it in your mouth, it can fall out. — Filipino Proverbs
Better the devil you know than the one you don’t. — American Proverbs
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In reasoning, therefore, from appearances which are particular, care must be taken how we generalize; we should be cautious not to attribute to nature, laws which may perhaps be only of our own invention. — James Hutton
From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis, which meant decentralization because knowledge is not concentrated anywhere. It's based on motivation, and so these are the advantages of, say, the cautious case for capitalism, that the market system is efficient. — Kenneth Arrow
I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice. — Robert M. Gates
Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of. — Amy Tan
You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,. — Daryl Hall
I am always cautious about naming the known, as we often forget to hold in regard those whose names will never be known to anyone outside of their close circle. — Joan Halifax
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see. — Lord Byron
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. — Susan B. Anthony
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages. — Zadie Smith
I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call 'boots on the ground.' — Hillary Clinton
I feel like any actor should always be thinking about how to serve the story. The thing to be cautious of is trying to make too much of your "moment," or whatever. The story is a lot bigger than you, and you're there to help it along. The thing to think about is whether what you're doing is true to the moment and where the story's going, rather than going, "Here are my scenes. What can I try and do to make the most of them?" — Melanie Lynskey
If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside. — Ingrid Betancourt
I love women and I love the women I have been with. I always try to be kind and cautious and treat people nice. — Kid Rock
As individuals, it's a responsibility to be cautious about the things we DO put out there. And taking the time to be mindful of what we're sharing. And always coming from a place of integrity. But also sharing positive things. Whether it be online, or just to someone walking down the street - just passing on positive energy. — Lexi Ainsworth
That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops. — George Saunders
Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt. — Paulo Coelho
I don’t like being here with these people and animals. I’m going to retire, but remember, courage is doing what we know is dangerous. It’s risking our safety for a chance at something better. Don’t let your fears shape your reality because no matter how cautious you are, someone or something always sneaks in the back door to manifest that fear. Better to face it and defeat it than to let it attack you unawares. (Maxis) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. — Susan B. Anthony
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