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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. -- Susan B. Anthony
The cautious seldom err. -- Confucius
I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine. -- Gail Devers
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins
The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach. -- Ernst Zundel
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith. -- James Cameron
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. -- Sigmund Freud
I'm cautious about a lot of words -- James Hillman
Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter. -- Laozi
I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward. -- Namie Amuro
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty. -- Publilius Syrus
Cautious of the flood so I always lay the right pipe. -- Drake
We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion. -- Tom Lantos
Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells. -- Samuel Johnson
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. -- Meg Cabot
I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes. -- Matt Cameron
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. -- Xun Zi
You can be cautious or you can be creative (but there's no such thing as a cautious creative). -- George Lois
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. -- Thomas Fuller
No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority. -- Bob Dole
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. -- Stendhal
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. -- Meg Cabot
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. -- Susan B. Anthony
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. -- George H. Mead
Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories. -- David Talbot
Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not. -- Howard Staunton
If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn. -- Thomas Merton
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences... -- Susan B. Anthony
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! -- Homer
I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. -- Werner Herzog
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious. -- Michael Shermer
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature. -- Russel Honore
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. -- Stephen Hawking
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives. -- James A. Forbes
During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking. -- Pankaj Patel
I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless. -- Peter Hollingworth
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor. -- Robert Chambers
People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious. -- Michael Douglas
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For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. -- Ferdinand Mount
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. -- George H. Mead
You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it. -- Mathias Rust
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about. -- Maureen Dowd
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature. -- Charles K. Kao
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence. -- Al Gore
Be cautious and bold. -- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
I am always cautious. -- Carnie Wilson
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root. -- Robert Burns
A cautious creative is an oxymoron. -- George Lois
I'm more cautious about what I write. -- Susan Sontag
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. -- Zaha Hadid
Be curious about life, and cautious with it! -- Vincent Price
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty. -- Seneca the Younger
As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious. -- Mark Twain
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one. -- Augustus
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! -- Homer
He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little. -- Friedrich Schiller
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty. -- Publilius Syrus
Back in the 80s we were very cautious about steroids. -- Dorian Yates
I am really cautious about what I say and do. -- Kim Kardashian
Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief -- Carl Jung
Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. -- Martin Buber
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. -- Livy
Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it. -- Pitbull
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. -- George McGovern
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. -- George McGovern
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I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way -- Emily Dickinson
My mind is cautious but my heart is in a hurry. -- Toby Keith
We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries. -- S. J. Perelman
One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious. -- Bahya ibn Paquda
Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all. -- Richard Branson
I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious. -- Jennifer Ellison
We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments. -- Olli Rehn
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father. -- Mason Cooley
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. -- V. S. Pritchett
A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead. -- Sue Grafton
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I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it. -- Bud Selig
Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger. -- Craig Benzine
Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious. -- Andrea Cremer
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see. -- Lord Byron
No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable. -- Eli Broad
Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable. -- Rand Beers
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. -- John Zimmerman
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything. -- Elizabeth Loftus
Being cautious ain't merely look after myself, but also keep me away from others' carelessness. -- Toba Beta
There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear. -- C.J. Langenhoven
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
Be very cautious about your object of love because that is going to decide your destiny -- Rajneesh
I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so. -- Michael Palin
Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed, -- Bill Gross
We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before. -- Bashar al-Assad
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? -- Bharati Mukherjee
All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality. -- Aleksandra Ninkovic
When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking? -- Confucius
Experiences might teach us to be cautious, but never to be paranoid. Paranoia is a limiter of destiny -- Mr Imbuya
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions. -- Philip Sidney
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. -- Horace
I'd relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn't a guarantee for happiness. -- Jeaniene Frost
I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am. -- Heath Ledger
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. -- Andy Goldsworthy
My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy. -- Paul Walker
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. -- Rudolf Carnap
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. -- Dean Koontz
Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her. -- Samuel Johnson
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. -- George Lucas
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When I leave the country, I'm very, very cautious about what I eat and drink. No vegetables, no fruit. -- Paula Creamer
You can't be an FBI agent without being cautious and thinking things through. That's just part of the training. -- Malik Yoba
It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity. -- Yoshijiro Umezu
I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf. -- Peter Dinklage
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.] -- Tacitus

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