Careful Quotes

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

Health, May, Die

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden

God, Humble, Grateful

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Friends, Cannot

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone

Friends, Become, Choose

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Cannot, Young, Reading

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Life, Time, Spend

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Trust, Future, Past

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

Rich, Rather, Leave

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money, Principles

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu

Failure, End, Often

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
e. e. cummings

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Francis of Assisi

Peace, Heart, While

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
James A. Baldwin

Heart, Surely, Yours

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
Joel Osteen

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.
John Wooden

Today, Young, Coach

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
Sidney Poitier

Positive, Whatever, Accept

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
Bill Gates

Tough, Few, Pick

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Best, History

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone

Friends, Become, Choose

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
Hillary Clinton

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Yoko Ono

Positive, Anger, Angry

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Gilbert Murray

Enemy, Nothing, Soul

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
Julia Child

Love, Nice, Someone

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll

Trust, Patience, Teacher

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Orson Welles

Pretty, Lose, Against

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Art, Knowledge, Greatest

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
Scott Adams

Problems, Write, Within

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