Accomplish Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accomplish Force Prudence
Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton Copy Share Image
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.” — George Washington Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to… — Theodore Epp Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share
There's things that you want to accomplish, but to do that you have to work. That's the name of the game. — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party. — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen. — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
For what we want to accomplish in the future, we have to be able to view everything from the eyes of the customer. — Karen Katz Copy Share Image
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image