Quotes About Prudence

The success of any enterprise depends on personal effort, persistence, prudence, and basically on deep faith in God.

Hay personas tan prudentes que no comen, y otras tan sumisas que piden permiso para hacerlo. Ambas mueren por inanición. La moderación es un atributo admirado por casi todas las culturas y requisito fundamental para garantizar la convivencia y salvaguardar la integridad psicológica de la gente, pero si se hace de ella un supervalor se comienza a transitar peligrosamente por los límites de la falsedad y el bloqueo emocional.

La prudencia es la carta de presentación de las personas tipo C. Ellas se vanaglorian de poseer el valor de la discreción en grado superlativo. Dicen exactamente lo que los demás esperan que digan, y se comportan como se espera que lo hagan. Hacen gala de una diplomacia digna de los mejores embajadores.

Cuanto más expreses, menos tendrás para almacenar. Mientras que la postergación cierra las puertas de evacuación, la prudencia exagerada apenas las abre.

La prudencia es futuro, prevención, anticipación responsable, deseo razonado. Está diseñada para evaluar el antes de, para que no tengamos que arrepentirnos del después de. No es un freno de emergencia asfixiante, sino autorregulación, juicio y lucidez orientada a no lastimar ni lastimarse. Kant decía: "La prudencia aconseja, la moral ordena". Una asertividad sin prudencia tarde o temprano se transforma en agresión.

Err on the side of caution

Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. However, it is also adaptive for the initial caution

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

il valait mieux prévenir que guérir.

Faith was praiseworthy, but should be seasoned with intelligence.

So during the rainy season the prudent person carries an umbrela, while the reckless person does not and, of course, gets wet when it rains. Prudence is not precise knowledge, but a willingness to adapt to circumstances in the shortest possible time.

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days . . . to show how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous, how the councils of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger ... and how the middle course, adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may he found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster.

We enter into no illegal turpitude until rather careful reflection has assured us of its expediency.

Being careful hasn't gotten us squat.

Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.

Fasting, when practised in prudence, and genuine prayer are conducive to the development of faith with its accompanying power for good. Individual application of this principle may be made with profit. Have you some besetting weakness, some sinful indulgence that you have vainly tried to overcome? Like the malignant demon that Christ rebuked in the boy, your sin may be of a kind that goeth out only through prayer and fasting.

If you have not learned wisdom and prudence in the use of "unrighteous mammon," how can you be trusted with the more enduring riches?

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue Chang - Lost Horizon (1933)

This was one of those occasions when discretion was the better part of not getting your face bashed in.