Top 122 Cautious Quotes

I got married at 22, which, at the time, didn’t seem young. I don’t regret it because you can only make the decisions that feel right at the time, otherwise you’ll just be cautious about everything and that’s no way to live.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Being Scottish, I’m probably a little tight, or as the Scots say, ‘You’re cautious with your money.’ I don’t think that ‘s the worst thing in the world to be.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

As an employer, we’re not – let’s face it: most of us don’t employ men as nannies. Most of us don’t. Now you can call that sexist; I call that cautious and very sensible when you look at the stats. Your odds are stacked against you if you employ a man.

There are many random, unprotected sites online that appear safe to use and are ready to accept credit card information. You wouldn’t give a stranger off the street your credit card information, so be extra cautious about who you are sharing it with online.

My appreciation for cooking and healthy living came from watching my best friend die from liver cancer in 2008. I realized that I needed to make some big changes if I wanted to be around for a long time, so now I’m more cautious of how much I eat, what I’m eating, and how often.

I don’t think I’m fearless at all. I think anybody who says they’re fearless doesn’t last very long. I think I’m pretty cautious, actually.

I’m cautious about a lot of words.

I think a lot of us are a lot more cautious with marriage because of what we saw happening with our parents. I see a lot more healthy marriages in my generation than they probably saw in theirs.

I love fashion and always have something put together, but I won’t wear anything specifically to be photographed in. I have become more cautious of making funny faces in public.

I’m very cautious to not be too observant, or too consumed with what works and what doesn’t work, because I think that’s when you fail.

I’m very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there’s no sure set, there’s no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.

I’m definitely a techno-optimist. I think we can do amazing things. But in my experience, if a thing has great potential, there is also a risk of great downsides, so to speak. Coming from a truly, really enthusiastic ‘wow decade,’ we are now moving into waters where we are somewhat more cautious.

There’s no such thing as a cautious creative.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.

I’m pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I’ve only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.

I am very cautious, and there are not too many decisions I’ve not discussed with my parents, whether that be about my career or away from the field.

I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.

As you get older, I suppose, you get a bit more cautious in everything you do. But I’ve always been blessed with self-belief.

I’ve never put all my eggs in one basket, and I’ve always been cautious.

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I’m not a big sugar guy.

The world is fortunate – for the time being, at least – that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America’s decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.

Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they’re always teaching us from the day we’re born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like, and what we should look like.

When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn’t think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

Shows like ‘Top Chef,’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn’t get out of hand.

In the 1970s and early ’80s, Shanghai was quiet, cautious, a ghost of a once-great city – and yet physically, little was changed from its glittering heyday. When visiting, I enjoyed reading books on local history and used my time off to scope out the former haunts of gangsters and jazzmen.

Let’s be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.

I just want to be more willing to listen to many people and be cautious about what I’m doing.

See, no matter how hard you work, perception is something that rules this industry. Talent comes much later. That’s why I am cautious about what I say and whom I meet.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

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.

There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon – I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.

I prefer to be alive, so I’m cautious about taking risks.

I’m in an area where I want to make music that I’m thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry about putting food on the table. I’m in that position where I cannot always be gauging what things might become. I have to look ahead, because I’m cautious.

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

I’m cautious in matters of the heart.

I have to be cautious about how I dress, what I eat/drink and when I sleep so that my voice can shine as its best in each of my shows.

I can’t do the terrible mistake of thinking audiences are dumb and will accept anything I do. I want to be cautious about my choices.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

There’s a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It’s not a long-term measure.

I’m cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

I’ve definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics – I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That’s something that comes with age.

A lot of people don’t realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It’s something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

A leader has to be a role model both in both political and personal life, so from the beginning, I was cautious about my image and I wanted to be incorruptible like my father.

It’s kind of an unwritten law, I think, being – carrying the name – George Bush. At times I ask myself, ‘Am I going to be able to live life the way I want to?’ I’m cautious about doing certain things.

When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint.

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.

The new era of bottom-up politics has had politically paradoxical consequences in China. While it has made the system of governance more participatory, it has made the central government less authoritarian and, therefore, more bureaucratic and cautious.

Father was bold, and Mother was cautious. They never shouted at each other but argued constantly about strategy, and they taught me very early that before taking big risks, one must carefully figure the odds.