Be Cautious Quotes

• The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Wisdom, Learning, School

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches”

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

  Thomas Fuller

  Nice, Keeping Promises, Broken Promises

  "An Introduction to Prudence".

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• Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

  George Lucas

  Obi Wan Kenobi, Scum, Dark Side

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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• Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

  Tom Robbins

  Fun, Adventure, Destiny

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.19, Bantam

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• Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.

  Howard Staunton

  Kings, Queens, Men

  Howard Staunton (1872). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.40

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• America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Thinking, Rocks

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  Rand Beers

  Dream, Iraq, Situation

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• I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

  Gail Devers

  Long, Levels, Fine

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• Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

  John Lubbock

  Mistake, Men, Too Much

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• We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

  Tom Lantos

  Fashion, Optimistic, Cautious

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• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

  Homer

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Homer, René Le Bossu (1769). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.49

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• The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

  Meg Cabot

  Stay Strong, Courage, Business

  "The Princess Diaries". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Happiness, Marriage

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Women, People, History

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

  James Cameron

  Dream, People, Leap Of Faith

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

  Blaise Pascal

  Past, Decision, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

  George Lois

  Creative, Be Creative, Cautious

  "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.

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• America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Rocks, America

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Tolerance, Examination, Form

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• If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Gambling, Forever, Action

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Law, Optimism

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

  Namie Amuro

  Coward, Cautious

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• I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Used, Daredevil, Cautious

  "Dancing on Ice star Jennifer Ellison's guilt at being away from her son" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2012.

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