Caution Quotes

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. (Joseph Addison)
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. View quote
Wernher von Braun
The scars of others should teach us caution. View quote
Jerome
Distrust and caution are the parents of security. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision And yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell It was a risk I had to takeand took. View quote
Robert Frost
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. View quote
Norman Mailer
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
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)
You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less. View quote
Haruki Murakami
It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position. View quote
Harold L. Ickes
Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing. View quote
Arnold Schoenberg
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often. View quote
Robert Jordan
Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution. View quote
Ernest Gellner
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Who wants to live to be a hundred What's the point of it A short life and a merry one is far better than a long life sustained by fear, caution and perpetual medical surveillance. View quote
Henry Miller
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. View quote
Jigoro Kano
Throw caution to the wind and just do it. (Carrie Underwood)
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence. View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with killing and torment; but now my plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall not rest until I have eradicated hope from the Earth. Think on that, and be dismayed! View quote
Stephen R. Donaldson
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. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
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