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Quotes About Circumspection

Evie," Grayson murmured. "We need to be careful." Evie?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
knock yourself out...Or rather don't
~ Eoin Colfer
My default state is wariness.
~ Martin Freeman
Caution until you're sure, and then a little more caution.
~ Robert Jordan
be hostile unless you must, Moiraine had said, but above all never be overly friendly. Never be eager
~ Robert Jordan
Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Pussyfooting is a vice I have been concerned to avoid.
~ Larry McMurtry
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times
~ Aesop
In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
~ George Earle Buckle
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
~ Periander
Foi que Titão Passos, pensando mais, me disse: — "Tudo temos de ter cautela...
~ João Guimarães Rosa
The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
~ Bebe Rexha
The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.
~ Isoroku Yamamoto
kept him from going forward. His innate caution
~ Louis L'Amour
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
~ Sophocles
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
~ Anonymous
Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.
~ Frank Herbert
such exchanges should be carried on with caution.
~ Ronald Hutton
avoid trouble
~ Ann M. Martin
But not even then did I lose my composure. I continued to proceed with circumspection, as I always had before the accidents of life. The only external sign of my agitation was an inclination to disorder and a weakness in my fingers, and, the more the anguish increased, the harder they found it to close solidly around things.
~ Elena Ferrante
Don't jump in with two feet where truly informed people tread with care.
~ Anthony Weston
Better to fear a person who keeps often many people around oneself than to go near to him/her with a hope of getting support of any sort.
~ Anuj Somany