Top 40 Prudent Quotes

You just have to keep at it and budget yourself; be prudent. It’s art, so you really don’t go into it to make a zillion dollars, but there’s definitely bills to pay, and I want everyone in the band to have a salary and whatever they need.

I have serious concerns about whether it’s prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we’re sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

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

I’m often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that’s going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don’t know. Then this other voice says, ‘That’s not prudent. People will use what you’ve said to hurt you.’

Yes, we can make prudent choices as parents, but we can’t create an environment where there’s zero risk for our children. Not only is that impossible, I don’t think it’s desirable, either.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

I don’t approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let’s also be careful with how we talk.

My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced.

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.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

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

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

If you find a node that you can penetrate, that you can eliminate, and draw more information for future operations, I think it’s prudent to do.

Stepping out of the spotlight when it’s prudent to do so is a good thing.

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.

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

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.

If we lived within our means – by being prudent – the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!

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.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

It’s incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He’s cautious. He’s not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet.

Being prudent does not mean being fearful.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.

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.

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?

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

It’s fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, ‘Take prudent risks.’

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.