Quotes for Caution

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

I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.

Alex Gibney

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

John Ortberg

When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but I want to do everything.

Nushrat Bharucha

It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

Elon Musk

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Carl Levin

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

J. K. Rowling

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

Ezra Taft Benson

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

Russell Baker

Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.

George Carman

If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.

Stefanie Powers

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

Doctors are fantastic, but they err on the side of caution. But you can push yourself. You're not going to die from pain.

Tony McCoy

When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.

Johann Rupert

There's a tendency for people to think that celebrities do whatever they want, spend whatever they want, and it's completely out of control. While some of that may be true, I've never met a celebrity who threw caution to the wind and thought they could do anything. That's not the thought process.

Willie Aames

Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Everybody thinks they can do my job better than me, they always feel you've got to throw caution to the wind and that's the way supporters are.

Sam Allardyce

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Woodrow Wilson

When the amalgam is delivered to your dentist in a special protective box, he has to take extreme caution when handling the stuff: with masks, gloves, gowns, goggles, all needed to protect him from danger. He then drills your teeth and rams the mixture into your cavities, whereupon it becomes miraculously, instantly safe!

Jasper Carrott

Liverpool are a team that is essentially very defensive; caution is at the heart of their game.

Paolo Maldini