Quotes About Prudence

I don't do crazy things - I just don't.

Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical.

I'm not the type of person that could take someone else's funds and take a chance with them.

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

If I have a financial problem, it is caution. I like to have money in the bank. I don't like taking chances.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

I'm always careful. It's whiskey that isn't careful.

Any time you put all your eggs in one basket, you're just one stumble away from catastrophe. [Terri]

it's best we not keep all our eggs in one basket.

He is prudent who can listen in silence, who can take advice so as to gain a more precise, clear, and complete knowledge of the facts.

constructively paranoid

had gotten in trouble from talking too much.

The record was one of economy in government, of prudence and frugality, of spending the people's money as carefully as if it had been his own, of having government do only what the people couldn't do for themselves. That last point was very important

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards'.

The Irish proverb quoted at the beginning — If you see a two-headed pig, keep your mouth shut — contains profound pragmatic wisdom. Maybe most people are shrewd enough to understand that, and the reports that get into books like this are a small, very small, cross-section of the Chaos that is actually going on around us. Maybe.

Archie believed in always doing the smart thing. Not the thing you ached to do, not the impulsive act, but the thing that would pay off later.

Giving them room is often the better part of valor, especially when you're trying not to make things worse.

When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.

So much of power is not what you do but what you do not do—the rash and foolish actions that you refrain from before they get you into trouble.