Caution Quotes

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

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

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.