Quotes About Prudence

Never spend your money before you have it.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.

He was young and had been rough with time, listening to its bad advice he had made mistakes, had compromised himself, had trespassed against good behavior and prudence, both in his words and works.

2. If, instead of trusting in God, I trust only in my own intelligence, my own strength, and my own prudence, the means that God has given to me to find my way to Him will all fail me. Nothing created is of any ultimate use without hope. To place your trust in visible things is to live in despair.

to be cautious was to be wise.

His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.

I have a rule that has served me well in life. When in doubt, do nothing. If you're not sure, don't buy it, don't comment, don't commit. Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret.

I have a rule that has served me well in life. When in doubt, do nothing. If you're not sure, don't buy it, don't comment, don't commit.

Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret.

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

No experienced worker in this field will deny that there are rules of thumb that can prove helpful, but they must be applied with prudence and intelligence. One may follow all the right rules and yet get bogged down in the most appalling nonsense, simply by overlooking a seemingly unimportant detail that a better intelligence would not have missed. Even a man of high intellect can go badly astray for lack of intuition or feeling.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

True Rewards Seek Those Who Choose Wisely

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Be careful. Be diplomatic. Try not to blow anything up.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.