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Quotes About Cautious

Most Sagittariuses start off really reserved. You gotta check people out, see what they're about, and then once we decide you're cool, then that's when we become super fun and really outgoing. But first we gotta make sure everybody's cool.
~ KiKi Layne
She guarded herself against it, she supposed, the way she guarded herself against everything difficult or painful—by being loving, by being solicitous.
~ Sue Miller
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.
~ Sun Tzu
I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.
~ James Heckman
Still, he was being canny, and that was a good thing. All in all, she rather liked her policemen to be wily. It made her feel safer.
~ Faith Martin
They don't smile like that anymore. They were good kids, well-adjusted and all, but there was still an inescapable, underlying sadness. When you looked closely, the smiles were more cautious now, a wince in the eye, a fear of what else might be taken from them.
~ Harlan Coben
My father was also a painter - actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I was growing up as a cautious kid.
~ Cai Guo-Qiang
Don't care too much, Porsche. Every person you meet will use it against you.
~ Sister Souljah
Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions
~ Stella Gibbons
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
~ Stephan Pastis
I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
~ Kim Jee-woon
Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!
~ An Na
Ramona was the sort of girl who was always early because something might happen that she didn't want to miss.
~ Beverly Cleary
When Daniel Boone is uneasy, you know it's time to watch your step.
~ Bill Bryson
Festina lente may well be his motto
~ Bram Stocker
Politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse
~ T.S. Eliot
Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse
~ T.S. Eliot
I've been doing a lot of thinking" "Uh-Oh, Thinking. That's a dangerous business!
~ Justin Somper
My wife and I invest very, very conservatively.
~ Ron Howard
I accept that the Army must do what it thinks it needs to get people to join, but I think they ought to be extremely cautious about the message they send outside.
~ Nicholas Soames
As Franklin temporized, another dispatch arrived from McClellan: "It is important to drive in the enemy in your front, but be cautious in doing it until you have some idea of his force. . . . Thus far our success is complete, but let us follow it up closely, but warily."2
~ Bradley M. Gottfried
I've always been very cautious with what I do. You know, that started at a young age. I always had the approach or the mentality I never wanted to embarrass my parents.
~ Derek Jeter
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
~ Stephen Hawking
We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.
~ Stephen Kuusisto