Caution Quotes

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

Religion, Experience, Reason

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin

Parents, Security, Distrust

Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Step, Shows

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
Thomas S. Monson

Life, Faith, Future

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

Life, Hope, Experience

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

Heart, Seems, Spite

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

Good, Full, General

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

Love, Happiness, True

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

Great, Truth, Beautiful

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair

Success, Failure, Goal

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

Side, Daring, Err

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
J. C. Watts

Support, Remind, Flawed

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
Donald Rumsfeld

Him, Decisions, Personal

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
Carrie Underwood

The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. Jerome

Others, Teach, Scars

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

Good, Others, Learn

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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun

Greatest, Learned, Impossible

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
Elizabeth Edwards

Politics, End, Sometimes

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

Time, Country, Old

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
Russell Baker

May, Hazardous, Solemnity

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Emma Goldman

Enough, Foolish, Mankind

But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
Condoleezza Rice

Trying, United, Prove

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Leon Kass

Wise, May, Enough

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.
James McGreevey

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

Great, Amended, Document

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair

Failure, Perhaps, Inaction

Action makes more fortune than caution.
Charlotte Whitton

Makes, Action, Fortune

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Emma Goldman

Enough, Foolish, Mankind

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
Theodore C. Sorensen

War, Long, Same

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