Quotes About Prudence

A man has the right to be stupid on his own account, but not on behalf of others.

The key to happiness in life is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Just because the light is green doesn't mean you shouldn't look both ways before stepping into the street.

A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

This doesnt mean we must ignore the duties of the world forever; that would be impossible. Let prudence be our guide. However, I do believe that it is a common mistake of Spirit-filled people not to leave the cares of the world periodically to praise God in their spirits and to rest in the peace of His divine presence for a few moments.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Mother Nature gives a sense of romance to young people, in place of prudence, to advance the species. It's a trick--that makes us grow.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

He had much prudence, much conscientiousness, and there were occasions when these virtues were the cause of overmuch disquietude in him.

The Forty-barrel-bull schools are larger than the harem schools. Like a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard. They soon relinquish this turbulence though, and when about three-fourths grown, break up, and separately go about in quest of settlements, that is, harems.

it's easy to be sensible; why don't ye, then? any man with half an eye can be sensible.

Lo más probable es que su larga experiencia hubiese enseñado al anciano esa amarga prudencia que ni aconseja ni se entromete en nada.

Live steady. Don't fuck around. Give anything weird a wide berth—including people. It's not worth it. I learned this the hard way through brutal indulgence.

asciende aproximadamente a un millón y medio de libras esterlinas en francos suizos y bolívares venezolanos, en los que, por razones de prudencia, pues siguen siendo las monedas más fuertes del mundo

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

I'm a good old Yorkshire girl in that I don't like to talk about things that are on tick. As my nana always said, 'Until you've bought it, it's not yours,' so until it's signed on the dotted line, I don't like to talk about it.

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

Me winning all these trophies is amazing and I want to keep going. And I know that at the snap of a finger it can be taken away. So each and every moment I have to enjoy - and stay humble as well. Because you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.'

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.