Quotes for Caution

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

The cautious seldom err.

Confucius

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

Jimmy Reid

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

William James

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Sun Tzu

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Alvin Toffler

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

James Thomson

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Publilius Syrus

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Benjamin Franklin

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

When it comes to the safety of our children, we need to take an abundance of caution.

Ned Lamont

I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

Rachel Nichols

The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.

Fabrizio Moreira

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

Lynne Truss

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Yair Lapid

A movie studio has to answer to a marketing department, and to shareholders, to ensure the broadest audience possible for its product; it tends to err on the side of caution as a result.

Mike Flanagan

I'm into cars and motorcycles, but I'm not crazy. I still have a couple motorcycles, but as you get older and you have kids, you develop a little bit of caution on the road.

Donal Logue

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.

Fabrizio Moreira