Being Too Cautious Quotes

#1. Some people might laugh at me for being too cautious, but stupid accidents happen all the time, and the ones who get killed or badly wounded are usually the ones who were laughing.

Haruki Murakami

#2. The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#3. When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.

Nikki Giovanni

#4. When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

Robert Redford

#5. We need to learn to "read with a comb" - that is, developing a value system that gives us the ability to be critical of what we study. Here the word critical does not mean approaching our studies with a negative attitude. It means being cautious and discerning.

R.C. Sproul

#6. Sharon spoke slowly and carefully. It was, she'd found, the best way to create an illusion of shamanly wisdom, as people often mistook cautious speech for being thoughtful instead of panic-struck.

Kate Griffin

#7. the plight of being old: clearly recalling what it was like to act voluntarily and enjoy life as it came, now trapped in a frame that forbade anything except slow cautious movements

John Brunner

#8. No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.

Eli Broad

#9. Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#10. Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#12. Being cautious is new territory; my specialty was leaping, not looking. These days I pay attention. You can stumble uphill as easily as down. Ice comes in smooth and corrugated. Plastic bags are slippery underfoot. A big dog can knock you to your knees.

Abigail Thomas

#13. It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.

Emraan Hashmi

#14. The wolf wanted to bed her and claim her as his own. Being of a more cautious nature than his wolf, he would wait until he knew her a little better before deciding to court her.

Patricia Briggs

#15. Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger.

Craig Benzine

#16. Being cautious ain't merely look after myself,
but also keep me away from others' carelessness.

Toba Beta

#17. Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

John Zimmerman

#18. 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

#19. Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

Sue Grafton

#20. Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

Zaha Hadid

#21. Being careful requires you to take actions cautiously - and there is no way that you will ever hit 10X activity levels by being cautious.

Grant Cardone

#22. I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.

Kamala Harris

#23. Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or not, but it's more that it can be a strain on your relationships.

Jesse Metcalfe

#24. Are "people in the world", I wonder, creatures that spend their whole lives greeting each other in stiff, formal patterns, being cautious about each other, then growing tired of each other? I hate meeting people.

Osamu Dazai

#25. I love you. I love everything about you. Your voice, your laugh. Your eyebrows when they grow back. Your face, your body, your hard head and your cautious heart. I want to spend the rest of my life looking at you, listening to you, working with you, just being with you. Rowan of the purple lupines.

Nora Roberts

#26. People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold.

V.E Schwab

#27. You can't be an FBI agent without being cautious and thinking things through. That's just part of the training.

Malik Yoba

#28. There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. That was the kind of life he dreamed about, where being cautious only applied to not taking things too fast in a relationship.

Kevin Wignall

#30. 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

#31. He could not change his nature, could not help being cautious, deliberate, introspective, not traits to be scorned by any means, but traits that seemed dull, bland - even to him - when compared with Davydd's hell-for-leather dazzle.

Sharon Kay Penman

#32. I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

Peter Dinklage

#33. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.

Uzoma Nnadi