Caution Quotes - Page 4

• Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
  
  Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Horse, Half, Habit

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• Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

  Josh Billings

  Opinion, Should, Changed

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Moving, Exercise, Arrows

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.95, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Taken, Garden, Roots

  Sharon Kay Penman (2009). “The Reckoning”, p.430, Macmillan

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• We must substitute courage for caution.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Substitutes

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.138, Beacon Press

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• One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious.

  Bahya ibn Paquda

  Cautious

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• The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Dark, Opportunity

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• The negative cautions of science are never popular.

  Margaret Mead

  Negative

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

  Byron Katie

  Wind, Safety, Priorities

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2012

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• I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

  Keith Green

  Children, Play, Needs

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• Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Seductive, Used, Dangerous

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• You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

  P. T. Barnum

  Exercise, Plans

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.48, Applewood Books

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• Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

  Erin McCarthy

  Character, Maturity, Going Away

  Erin McCarthy (2005). “The Pregnancy Test”, p.195, Kensington Books

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• Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

  Stephen Colbert

  Eye, Wind, Blind

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• Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

  Mason Cooley

  Patience, Men, Waiting

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• Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  People, Instance, Christendom

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• Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Circumspection

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.80

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• From wonder into wonder existence opens.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Awakening

  "The Way of Life, According to Laotzu" by Witter Bynner, 1944.

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• Forewarn'd, forearm'd.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Judging, Impossible

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• By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

  Benjamin Franklin

  Secret, May, Playing Chess

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• Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.

  Bill Rodgers

  Smart, Race, Views

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• Curiosity is the other side of caution.

  Temple Grandin

  Curiosity, Sides

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Adventure, Age, Body

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Daughter, Mother, Circumspection

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