Prudent Quotes

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes,
than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses.
But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive,
and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

A prudent consideration for Number One.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

The happier you are, the more apt you are to make a prudent decision.

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois