Cautious Quotes

#1. so bad a thing is it to invade God's property, and so cautious should we be to abstain from all appearances of this evil.

Matthew Henry

#2. I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

Michael Palin

#3. 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

#4. We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

A.W. Tozer

#5. Monotony is the only reward of the cautious

A. Somebody

#6. Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

Haley Joel Osment

#7. When coming to the fork in the road, be cautious of the direction you choose in life.

Angela Khristin Brown

#8. Lady
is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.

Lord Chesterfield

#9. I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

C. G. Jung

#10. Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse

T. S. Eliot

#11. The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.

Roger Lowenstein

#12. To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.

Laurence Gonzales

#13. I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.

Steven Shainberg

#14. Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious.

Patrick Weekes

#15. 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

#16. The Zenjirli inscriptions supply far more suggestive criteria, and show how cautious we must be in coming to conclusions respecting the unity of the Aramaic language. These inscriptions are in many ways more akin to Hebrew and Assyrian than to Aramaic.

John Courtenay James

#17. Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. It can also make them fun to be around.

Bear Grylls

#18. All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance
and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not
to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is
supported by no appearance of probability.

David Hume

#19. I'm cautious about a lot of words.

James Hillman

#20. Reckless in love but cautious in life, that's a message I have for you all tonight.

Tista Ray

#21. Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.

Sarah Carter

#22. 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

#23. Cautious human beings do not presume to write history on a day's notice. They are aware of the damage mistakes can cause. My father believed that mistakes could always be corrected in the next edition.

Pete Dexter

#24. 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

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

Eli Broad

#26. Jeeves' eyes had taken on the look of cautious reserve which you see in those of parrots, when offered half a banana by a stranger of whose bona fides they are not convinced.

P.G. Wodehouse

#27. I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

Werner Herzog

#28. When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

Frank Herbert

#29. Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical
is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#30. It is the cautious and not the reckless sailor who takes his little vessel to distant shores;

Edward Frederick Knight

#31. It is better ... to fear a little. One is cautious then.

Louis L'Amour

#32. Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

Jack Germond

#33. Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions

Stella Gibbons

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

Alphonse De Lamartine

#35. People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

Russel Honore

#36. RVM Thoughts for Today -
People are so cautious about Life that they forget to enjoy it. They may follow all the rule of the world but in the Process, they forget to Live.

R.v.m.

#37. Back in the 80s we were very cautious about steroids.

Dorian Yates

#38. I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.

Robin Hobb

#39. 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

#40. Mr. Nakata, this world is a terribly violent place. And nobody can escape the violence. Please keep that in mind. You can't be too cautious. The same holds true for cats and human beings.

Haruki Murakami

#41. In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kevin O'Leary

#42. In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

Michael Shermer

#43. The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

#44. 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

#45. Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#46. My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#47. I've definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics - I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That's something that comes with age.

Brandon Flowers

#48. Why didn't you tell me?" Vera looked cautious. "Tell you what? I said he was talented.""Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap-dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor. An ejaculation of truth.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#49. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinion of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning

Sue Monk Kidd

#50. As she walked through the dark, stepping softly through the wet stones, she looked ahead to where the first cautious star managed to blink through the clouds (361).

Caragh M. O'Brien

#51. Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn't get out of hand.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#52. In the 1970s and early '80s, Shanghai was quiet, cautious, a ghost of a once-great city - and yet physically, little was changed from its glittering heyday. When visiting, I enjoyed reading books on local history and used my time off to scope out the former haunts of gangsters and jazzmen.

Nicole Mones

#53. When you loved someone, you couldn't hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe.

Martina Boone

#54. When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

Dean Koontz

#55. I like cautious people. They are like me. Not that I like me.

A. L. Kennedy

#56. 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

#57. Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.

James A. Forbes

#58. Don't worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.

S.W. Lothian

#59. People around the world today, growing cautious of war and fearful of its consequences, have turned increasingly to its moral equivalent in team sports.

Edward O. Wilson

#60. We're cautious. We'd rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it's going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we're trying to innovate.

Steve Jobs

#61. 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

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

#63. You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

Orson Scott Card

#64. The cautious seldom err.

Confucius

#65. Fear and caution are two different things. Be cautious - be conscious - but do not be fearful. Fear only paralyzes, while consciousness mobilizes. Be mobilized, not paralyzed.

Neale Donald Walsch

#66. My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.

Scott Patterson

#67. You'd claim me?" he asked, hopeful but cautious.
She nodded once. "Because I'd never set a monster like you loose in the world.

Josephine Angelini

#68. How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Homer

#69. You're wise to be cautious. People taking the last rites have a way of dying on cue.

Kurt Vonnegut

#70. Cautious reticence is, in nine cases out of ten, cowardly betrayal. The best policy is never to be politic, but to proclaim every atom of the truth so far as God has taught it to you.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#71. Daring in design, cautious in execution - it was a formula he made his own throughout his career.

Ron Chernow

#72. Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

Rand Beers

#73. The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Stendhal

#74. School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#75. You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever ...

Patrick Henry

#76. I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free

Tony Benn

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. The Vulgar sham of the pompous feast Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest The organised charity, scrimped and iced In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ."1 - John Boyle O'Reilly

Tim Pat Coogan

#80. 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

#81. You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

Mathias Rust

#82. You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse.

Howard K. Smith

#83. The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

Ernst Zundel

#84. My mind is cautious but my heart is in a hurry.

Toby Keith

#85. I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#86. I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

Lakshmi

#87. First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

Vint Cerf

#88. My mom told me that I should not be scared or too cautious," concludes Dimples. "Just do it if you have the guts. If it is correct, it will work.

Joey A. Concepcion

#89. If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, "It seems to be raining," on the off-chance that somebody's pouring water off the roof.

Dashiell Hammett

#90. There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

George Lois

#91. I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#92. Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

David Talbot

#93. If you always try to be cautious and careful, you will never impress anyone.

M.F. Moonzajer

#94. Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

P.G. Wodehouse

#95. Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

Augustus

#96. Surely a program of incremental reforms, of cautious steps, is the wisest way to proceed? You show xtraordinary erudition for an eighth-stratum, Archivist. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps." We

David Mitchell

#97. I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that's a price worth paying.

Martine Millman

#98. Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.

Michael Morpurgo

#99. I've always been very cautious with what I do. You know, that started at a young age. I always had the approach or the mentality I never wanted to embarrass my parents.

Derek Jeter

#100. Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Elbert Hubbard