Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold. — Mikhail Naimy
Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction. — Sylvester Stallone
We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart! — Rumi
Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break. — Langston Hughes
There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially. — Confucius
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
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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
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
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
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
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
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
Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously. — Yi Sun-sin
We should be very cautious in what we expect of our prescience. — Howard Marks
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
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
Always Be Cautious Quotes
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 will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice. — Robert M. Gates
You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,. — Daryl Hall
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
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
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
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 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
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me. — Babe Paley
Being Cautious Quotes
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
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
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
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
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
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
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
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us. — Joseph Campbell
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
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse. — Garrison Keillor
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
Every step of life shows much caution is required. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance. — Henry Miller
If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life — Richelle Mead
Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus? — Carl Jung
It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now. — Elon Musk
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. — Penelope Mitchell
Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed. — Kenneth E. Boulding
The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy. — Venita VanCaspel
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. — Sigmund Freud
Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth. — Plato
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men. — Hesketh Pearson
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot
I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life. — Sandy Hume
I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time. — Nora Roberts
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems. — Benjamin Franklin
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