Prudence is a quality that is often admired and sought after. It is the ability to make wise and cautious decisions, considering the potential consequences and taking actions to avoid unnecessary risks. Many quotes have been written about prudence, highlighting its importance in various aspects of life. These quotes often emphasize the value of thinking before acting, weighing the pros and cons, and exercising caution in decision-making.
It is always good to be careful or vigilant. — Didier Deschamps
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Prudent investing is all about buying the right assets at the right price. — Naved Abdali
I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse. — Liz Truss
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. — Benjamin Franklin
This is because the outcomes of life are not governed by passion, they are governed by principle. — Brianna Wiest
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Prudent Quotes
I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life. — Carl Rogers
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. — Camille Paglia
Do not speak to fools, for they will scorn your prudent words. — Bible Proverbs
When there are many words, sin is unavoidable, but the one who controls his lips is prudent. — Bible Proverbs
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. — Theodore C. Sorensen
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. — Vincent Van Gogh
A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence. — Josemaria Escriva
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies. — Maximilien Robespierre
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. — Mark Twain
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. — Mary Cholmondeley
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify. — Alexander Hamilton
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism. — Theodore Roosevelt
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. — Omar N. Bradley
People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. — Niccolo Machiavelli
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. — Catherine McAuley
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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. — Thomas Jefferson
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. — Knut Hamsun
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead. — Theodore Roosevelt
The only prudence in life is concentration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. — Aesop
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. — Clara Barton
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. — Saadi Shirazi
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing. — Grenville Kleiser
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. — Robert E. Lee
We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there. — Russell D. Moore
In the embers shining bright
A garden grows for thy delight,
With roses yellow, red, and white.
But, O my child, beware, beware!
Touch not the roses growing there,
For every rose a thorn doth bear. — Richard Watson Gilder
I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence. — William E. Gladstone
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom. — Amos Bronson Alcott
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In Conclusion
Quotes about prudence often stress the need for careful consideration and foresight. They remind us to take time to evaluate the situation, gather information, and assess the potential outcomes before making a decision. They encourage us to be thoughtful and deliberate, avoiding impulsive actions that may lead to regret. Such quotes serve as reminders to prioritize long-term goals over short-term gratification and to approach life with a sense of wisdom and prudence.
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