Top 54 Over Cautious Quotes

#1. I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.

William Faulkner

Over Cautious Quotes #2788
#2. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.

Rumi

Over Cautious Quotes #3139
#3. Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision."
"You wouldn't have done it, I bet."
"That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.

Veronica Roth

Over Cautious Quotes #6007
#4. 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

Over Cautious Quotes #7684
#5. We are taught how to read, write, to be polite, cautious and respectful. But no one ever teaches us how to be happy. We have to learn that all on our own.

Nina Guilbeau

Over Cautious Quotes #14304
#6. Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.

Maureen Dowd

Over Cautious Quotes #15081
#7. I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.

James Heckman

Over Cautious Quotes #20368
#8. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder

Over Cautious Quotes #20816
#9. If you are upset with another's words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul

Jeremy Aldana

Over Cautious Quotes #34881
#10. A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Over Cautious Quotes #35288
#11. We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Baron De Montesquieu

Over Cautious Quotes #38101
#12. When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

Confucius

Over Cautious Quotes #39199
#13. I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Over Cautious Quotes #42005
#14. Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Over Cautious Quotes #43951
#15. I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In

Claire Messud

Over Cautious Quotes #45567
#16. The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

Horace

Over Cautious Quotes #48982
#17. I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

Gail Devers

Over Cautious Quotes #54201
#18. Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind ... Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

David Gemmell

Over Cautious Quotes #55067
#19. While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

John Wooden

Over Cautious Quotes #69197
#20. I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.

Don Nickles

Over Cautious Quotes #70764
#21. A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

Zendaya

Over Cautious Quotes #94546
#22. If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

T.K. Naliaka

Over Cautious Quotes #98547
#23. The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

Over Cautious Quotes #108338
#24. it is only experience and disillusionment that make me cautious.

Martin Gilbert

Over Cautious Quotes #111654
#25. I punched Sawyer's number into my phone and waited while it rang.
"Hello." The cautious tone in his voice told me he knew I'd just found out.
"Meet me on the field, now," I growled.
"You know," he replied in a weary tone.
"Yeah, you stupid fuck, I know.

Abbi Glines

Over Cautious Quotes #125237
#26. It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon.

Dick Vermeil

Over Cautious Quotes #129595
#27. I am really cautious about what I say and do.

Kim Kardashian

Over Cautious Quotes #130274
#28. A cautious creative is an oxymoron.

George Lois

Over Cautious Quotes #145154
#29. till he'd tried it. You have to understand. There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't know fear. He might be cautious -

Peter Benchley

Over Cautious Quotes #146172
#30. I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.

Raymond E. Feist

Over Cautious Quotes #149793
#31. Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

William S. Burroughs

Over Cautious Quotes #150796
#32. I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Namie Amuro

Over Cautious Quotes #151909
#33. Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.

Andrea Cremer

Over Cautious Quotes #153787
#34. My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

Paul Walker

Over Cautious Quotes #154580
#35. Cautious of the flood so I always lay the right pipe.

Drake

Over Cautious Quotes #179997
#36. When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.

Rick Warren

Over Cautious Quotes #186161
#37. As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.

Charles Caleb Colton

Over Cautious Quotes #196065
#38. For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

Lily Rabe

Over Cautious Quotes #201974
#39. There are plastic bags with zippers on them. I've seen them in commercials," Dragos said to her. He snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name. "You put food in them."
"Ziploc bags?" she asked in a cautious voice.
He pointed at her. "Yes. I want one.

Thea Harrison

Over Cautious Quotes #203297
#40. She knocked a third time, three regular strokes, gentle, but perfectly distinct, and with meaning in them; for, modulate it with what cautious art we will, the hand cannot help playing some tune of what we feel , upon the senseless wood.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Over Cautious Quotes #204365
#41. And if we had learned anything from this story it was to be cautious of paper
to be mindful of its fragile construction and sharp edges, but mostly to be cautious of what is written on it.

Salvador Plascencia

Over Cautious Quotes #209961
#42. 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

Over Cautious Quotes #220089
#43. I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

Peter Dinklage

Over Cautious Quotes #227468
#44. Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

Samuel Johnson

Over Cautious Quotes #233894
#45. There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

James Cameron

Over Cautious Quotes #424700
#46. He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

Friedrich Schiller

Over Cautious Quotes #672135
#47. No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

Theodore Parker

Over Cautious Quotes #687001
#48. 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

Over Cautious Quotes #694550
#49. It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique
our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language
some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.

Karen Joy Fowler

Over Cautious Quotes #701106
#50. 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

Over Cautious Quotes #1109995
#51. 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

Over Cautious Quotes #1208787
#52. 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

Over Cautious Quotes #1331444
#53. 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

Over Cautious Quotes #1355200
#54. Whatever influence Bullaro's normally cautious character might have exerted over the passions of his penis were now nonexistent, and he unhesitatingly followed her and quickly undressed.

Gay Talese

Over Cautious Quotes #1591384

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