Prudence Quotes

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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. — Seneca the Younger
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. — Charles Horton Cooley
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. — Robert Dale Owen
Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism… — E. Stanley Jones
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's… — Marcus Aurelius
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune. — Benjamin Franklin
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. — Benjamin Disraeli
If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can… — C.S. Lewis
What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action. — Umberto Eco
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or… — Robert Peel
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can… — Catherine McAuley
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my… — Herman Melville
Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection.… — J R Ward
On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of… — Justin Cronin
. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . . — Vincent de Paul
Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear.… — Vincent de Paul
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top… — Mary Cholmondeley
Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is… — Richard M. Nixon

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