Inspirations

Hasten slowly.

- Caesar Augustus

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

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Look twice before you leap.

- Charlotte Bronte

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

- Miguel De Cervantes

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

- Miguel De Cervantes

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.

- Lydia M. Child

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

- A. W. Hare

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?

- Carl Jung

Caution is the parent of safety.

- Proverb

When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.

- Proverb

Always count the cost.

- American Proverb

Don't dance on a volcano.

- French Proverb

Beware of one who has nothing to lose.

- Italian Proverb

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

- Swedish Proverb

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

- Bertrand Russell

He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

- Publilius Syrus

A mousetrap always provides free cheese.

- Source Unknown

Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage

- Source Unknown

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

- Woodrow T. Wilson

Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.

- Lord Chesterfield

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

- Junius

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

- Jean De La Fontaine

Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.

- Latvian Proverb

Never say ''oops'' in the operating room.

- Dr. Leo Troy

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

- Critias

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.

- Henry Fielding

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

- Samuel Johnson

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

- John Milton

He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.

- Old English Rhyme

Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.