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Quotes About Carefulness

It is better to be safe than sorry.
~ American Proverb
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.
~ Norman Swan
There are many different kinds of people in the world, and you can never assume that everyone will react to your strategies in the same way. Deceive or outmaneuver some people and they will spend the rest of their lives seeking revenge. They are wolves in lambs' clothing. Choose your victims and opponents carefully, then—never offend or deceive the wrong person.
~ Robert Greene
Prudence is for those who intend to live long lives
~ Robert Jordan
Caution until you're sure, and then a little more caution.
~ Robert Jordan
Susan Baker,' she says to me, 'I hope you never light a fire with coal-oil. Or leave oily rags lying around, Susan. They have been known to cause spontaneous combustion in less than an hour. How would you like to stand and watch this house burn down, Susan, knowing it was your fault?' Well, Miss Dew dear, I had my laugh on her over that. It was that very night she set her curtains on fire and the yells of her are ringing in my ears yet.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Pussyfooting is a vice I have been concerned to avoid.
~ Larry McMurtry
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
~ Steven Wright
Young then quotes Calvin, "In a word, the Prophet here describes to us the inconceivable carefulness with which God unceasingly watches over our salvation, that we may be fully convinced that he will never forsake us, though we may be afflicted with great and numerous calamities."1
~ Jerry Bridges
Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
~ Sebastian Thrun
L.A. is uninhibited: You're encouraged to express yourself, wear what you want, do what you want, and to speak from a very emotionally honest place. D.C. is different. In Washington, you have to be much more careful about what you say and do. Especially about what you wear!
~ Louise Linton
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I'm not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet," he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. "You can't unmeet them.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Being nice to that woman is like feeding a baby shark so it can grow big enough to eat you.
~ Annette Blair
I much prefer being told off by Brendan Rodgers than by my wife. Brendan is more careful than my wife with what he says.
~ Luis Suarez
Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he's ready, no matter how young he is, and you can't start too young to learn how to be careful.
~ Robert Ruark
He wasn't afraid a pipe now and then would kill him. As far as he could tell, a lot of the old Americans had been quivering daisies who thought they'd live forever if only they were careful enough, as if life was worth living that way. Some of them had believed eating butter was bad for you, of all things.
~ S.M. Stirling
une chose qui doit être bien faite ne doit point se faire à la hâte.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time.
~ Anonymous
Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics.
~ Anonymous
avoid trouble
~ Ann M. Martin
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.
~ Charles Edward Montague
You demand and fight for human rights; it is right, and everyone deserves that right; however, have you ever realized that soul of life also requires and deserves as; Read with Curiosity Speak with Knowledge Decide with Honesty Serve with Equality Behave with Soberness Execute with Carefulness Breathe with Truth These qualities purify, beautify and glorify human life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal