47 Quotes About Being Cautious

There are many thing that can set you apart from others. Being special doesn’t mean you have to always be cautious or reserved. Here is a look at some encouraging quotes about being cautious to get you inspired.

“A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.”

“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”

“Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you’re afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.”

“As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.”

“Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.”

“Become a very cautious consumer scrutinizing everything that you allow into your mind and body.”

“Being cautious ain’t merely look after myself, but also keep me away from others’ carelessness.”

“Brave people don’t live forever, but cautious people don’t live at all.”

“Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it’s much better to be cautious.”

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations… can never effect a reform.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”

“Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect.”

“First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists – once burned – are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.”

“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”

“I know the power of speech. I don’t talk much.”

“I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.”

“Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme.”

“If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.”

“If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.”

“Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.”

“It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.”

“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.”

“It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that they’ll be lucky to make it through the weekend.”

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”

“Let’s be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.”

“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.”

“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.”

“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.”

“Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!”

“Reckless in love but cautious in life, that’s a message I have for you all tonight.”

“Sometimes you just had to crawl through the dark before you could see the light.”

“Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love – like wielding a sword with no hilt – it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.”

“The best lessons are usually learned from failure. You musn’t beat yourself up if you fail – just pick yourself up, learn as much as you can from the experience and get on with the next challenge…The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all.”

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.”

“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.”

“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”

“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.”

“There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.”

“Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.”

“Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.”

“To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn’t decided what to believe.”

“We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”

“We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?”

“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.”

“While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.”

“While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it.”

“You can be cautious or you can be creative (but there’s no such thing as a cautious creative).”

The one time to put yourself out there on the line is in business. Wave caution in the wind and grab the reins to your life.