Prudent Quotes

188 Prudent quotes by 153 unique authors

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… — Baltasar Gracian
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… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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;… — Charles Caleb Colton
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. — Allan H. Meltzer
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors… — Abraham Lincoln
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations,… — John F. Kennedy
Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. — Norm MacDonald
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have… — Demosthenes
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. — Samuel Johnson
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which… — Aristotle
A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. — Joseph Collins
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. — William Makepeace Thackeray
While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are… — Steven Chu
We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything… — Jose Mujica
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a… — Thomas Paine
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race. — Margaret Sanger
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's… — Herman Melville
[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be… — Roger Ebert

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