Top 297 Prudent Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements.

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

If you find a node that you can penetrate, that you can eliminate, and draw more information for future operations, I think it's prudent to do.

There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Yes, we can make prudent choices as parents, but we can't create an environment where there's zero risk for our children. Not only is that impossible, I don't think it's desirable, either.

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.