Quotes About Prudence

And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast companions will stand by him and hold the line.

Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket - which is but a matter of saying, Scatter your money and your attention; but the wise man saith, Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

it is only experience and disillusionment that make me cautious.

the first and foremost step towards a victorious landing was to upset the equilibrium of the Turk so that he should be unable to concentrate either his mind or his men to meet our main attacks…. Prudence here is entirely out of place. There will be and can be no reconnaissances, no half measures, no tentatives. At a given moment we must stake everything on the one hazard.

It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing-gown.

And, as a general rule, it is more advisable to show your intelligence by saying nothing than by speaking out; for silence is a matter of prudence whilst speech has something in it of vanity

Recuerda que en tiempos arduos hay que conservar la ecuanimidad, lo mismo que en buenos un ánimo que domina prudentemente la alegría excesiva.» Horacio, Carmina, II, 3]

Give way neither to love nor to hate, is one-half of worldly wisdom: say nothing and believe nothing, the other half.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. At least two kinds of courage are required in aging and sickness. The first is the courage to confront the reality of mortality—the courage to seek out the truth of what is to be feared and what is to be hoped. Such courage is difficult enough. We have many reasons to shrink from it. But even more daunting is the second kind of courage—the courage to act on the truth we find.

Helvétius's maxims: "It is worth being wise only so long as one can also be foolhardy.

His enemies, insisted Adams, came in handy: "Our friends are either blind to our faults or not faithful enough to tell us of them." He knew that we are governed more by our feelings than by reason; with rigorous logic, he lunged at the emotions. He made a passion of decency. He was a prudent revolutionary. Among the last of his surviving words is a warning to Thomas Paine: "Happy is he who is cautious.

there is less danger in fearing too much than too little"—

Nestor considered awhile before speaking, a habit of his that irked many but which guaranteed that nothing foolish ever came from his mouth.

Life without caution is like a car without brake.

In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.