A Quote by Epictetus

Confident because of our caution

Epictetus

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Because Caution Confident Our

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Epictetus
Greek - Philosopher
50 - 138

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Yair Lapid

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

Leon Panetta

People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before.

Richard M. Daley

The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us.

Mike Bickle

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

Bertrand Russell

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.

Terry Pratchett

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

John Ortberg

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

Jean-Luc Godard

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.

Milton H. Erickson

I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

Mary Docter

I was confident in my ability. It's why I decided to walk on to a bigger school, in the Big 12: because I was confident in myself.

Baker Mayfield

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

J. Oswald Sanders

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

John Brown

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Seth Godin

Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are.