Quotes About Caution

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

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 you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

Don't do anything quickly, Tag had told him. And whatever you do, don't hit your brakes. You'll end up in the ditch. He caught something in his headlights. It took him a moment to realize what he was seeing before his heart took off at a gallop. A car was upside down in the middle of the highway, its headlights shooting out through the falling snow toward the river, the taillights a dim red against the steep canyon wall. The overturned car had the highway completely blocked.

Best be ready for the consequences when you go poking a porcupine with a stick, missy. Someone's bound to get hurt and it won't be the porcupine.

Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl," her father said, looking worried, " 'specially the renegade ones. They'll turn you every way but loose.

He that hath a satirical vein, as maketh others afraid of his wit, so he need be afraid of others' memory.

And let a man beware, how he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; for they will engage him into their own quarrels.

The most valuable result of many years is a nicely balanced mind instinctively heedful of various errors.

I wrote a song that basically turned into a public service announcement for the fellas out there, like, 'Should you run into this type of woman, run for your life!' So the name of the song is 'Run,' featuring the rapper ScHoolboy Q. It's one of the standouts on the album, in my personal opinion.

It's important not to lose a ball. It's rare for the team to lose the ball. You have to be careful.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

There is a difference between being bold and being rash.

Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

I am at the top of the pyramid, but I am not stupid, and I realise that one small step could see me fall down very quickly.

If I like a person, I don't have any mask/filter. I will open up a lot. I had hurt myself in the past because a couple of persons took advantage of me. I realised that they are not genuine people. Since then, I take time to open myself up for new people.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

Be safe and be realistic. They're both equally important.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.