Top 580 Careful Quotes

When you get to a certain point in your career, it’s easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you’re not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.
Jay DeMarcus
We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.
Ezra Taft Benson
I have an orthopedic pillow that’s made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
Lee Trevino
I have to be extra careful, but I’m never going to change the way I play.
Diego Costa
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world.
Ozzy Osbourne
I’m careful with money.
Craig Ferguson
I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.
Rebecca Ferguson
In general, when you have success on the field, you're

In general, when you have success on the field, you’re more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you’re in the public eye more, and you’ve got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you’re doing out in public and make sure you’re smart about the things you say.
Aaron Rodgers
But when one believes that you’ve been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
Jim Wallis
Ball position is everything in iron play. If you aren’t careful about it, you can create some major problems in your game just by getting an inch or two off.
Ernie Els
I wrote this book, ‘2030,’ and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don’t think it comes that fast.
Albert Brooks
I don’t think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.
Toby Emmerich
I do have Instagram, but I try to avoid going on it too much. Some people are very good at how they use it, and they enjoy that interaction, but I want to be very careful.
Natalia Dyer
I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.
Yo-Yo Ma
I have a very addictive personality, so I’m even careful about wanting more of anything than I need – even chocolate.
Dave Gahan
There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We’re not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if we do, we put ourselves in a position where we’re not marketable or where we can’t win.
Kelela
I’m pretty careful about making sure that when I choose to do something, it’s for the right reasons and that I really connect with it and care about it. So if the right musical came along, yes, I would totally do it!
Alex Sharp
When we talk about women’s economic empowerment, we should be careful that we’re not just giving women more to do.
Winnie Byanyima
Motorists in London have got to be immensely careful of cyclists. At the same time, cyclists in London are too often unwilling to obey the road signs. I’ve seen regular examples of people who just bolt through red lights.
Chris Grayling
I’m definitely careful. I’m not reckless or stupid, but that’s how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn’t me.
Debby Ryan
I have to be careful, as I don’t want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn’t like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you’d be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.
Alice Lowe
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
Ken Burns
When something bad happens, you’re bound to be doubly careful.
Nikita Thukral
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
Herman Melville
Quality that significantly exceeds the customer’s expectations doesn’t seem to pay off. This ‘delight the customer’ stuff isn’t rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
Tahl Raz
We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, ‘Why don’t you have more oil?’
Christophe de Margerie
The heavyweight division is always very intriguing. These are the heavy hitters, you know? Every time when you do a mistake, it’s the end of the fight. So you have to be careful all the time, and this is what makes this division so intriguing, so exciting for the fans.
Junior dos Santos
My top styling tips for brides are, first and foremost, to be careful not to go overboard with makeup. The goal is to look like yourself, just a bit enhanced!
Reem Acra
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
James Baldwin
I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don’t bring puka shells back. You’ve got to be careful of your vacation purchases.
Josh Homme
We had an incident back in 2001 where our drummer threw out a drumstick into the crowd and it hit someone in the eye and they were going to sue us. You just always have to be really careful with that kind of stuff.
Wayne Static
Even after arriving in South Korea, it’s dangerous. As a North Korean defector, I need to be careful from the spies to protect my relatives inside North Korea.
Lee Hyeon-seo
President Obama had voiced strong support for the effort in Afghanistan during his campaign, pledging to add two brigades, which he did. But since the inauguration… the administration had signaled that the U.S. commitment needed careful assessment, and we needed to recalibrate the strategy and objectives.
Stanley A. McChrystal
For young people I like to talk about unleashing your integrity, because I tie it to social media and how careful we have to be about being consistent online with who we really are.
Harris Faulkner
I tell every young woman who asks me, be very careful about your choice of spouse. If you don’t have a supportive spouse, it will be difficult to take on so many things.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
Damon Lindelof
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
Rowan Atkinson
If you’ve ever felt like you aren’t good enough, you’re not alone. However, if you’re not careful, those feelings can keep you from reaching your greatest potential.
Amy Morin
I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and

I’ve always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful – doesn’t really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you’re 1,500 miles from land. There’s no one you can call. You’re on your own.
David Crosby
Yeah, I’m kind of fit. And I’m quite careful about my diet.
Orlando Bloom
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
Nicolaus Copernicus
You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.
Elvis Costello
You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It’s very exciting to test yourself.
Francesca Annis
For whatever reason, some sorts of women’s silence were broken by MeToo. This is the optimistic bit. And that will lead to a much more careful attention to women’s voices.
Mary Beard
My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.
Paul Samuelson
Old habits die hard, and if you’re not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you’re trying to become.
Lecrae
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.
Henry Grunwald
With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.
Sherrod Brown
I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.
Ruth Bernhard
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can’t imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.
William Landay
The road can be hard on a kid if he’s not careful.
Bill Haley
Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.
Colin Cunningham
You have to be very careful when you let someone win.
James Caan
When you’re in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you’re not throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Ridley Scott
I am trying to be a lot more careful – and to not miss easy balls.
Judd Trump
We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.
Michael McCaul
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
Dave deBronkart
I’m known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it’s definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.
John Caudwell