Motivational Quotes

Caution

When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Caution

Vigilance is the virtue of vice.

Weber, C. J.

A mousetrap always provides free cheese.

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?

Jung, Carl

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father. [Matthew 18:10]

Bible

Beware of silent dogs and still waters.

Proverb, Portuguese

When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.

Proverb

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Don't dance on a volcano.

Proverb, French

10.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Adler, Alfred

14.

Beware of one who has nothing to lose.

Proverb, Italian

15.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Child, Lydia M.

16.

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.

Proverb, Persian

17.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

Hare, A. W.

18.

The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

22.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

23.

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage

25.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Twain, Mark