Top 580 Careful Quotes

Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it’s time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there’s a shield between us and the audience.
John P. Kotter
I think, a lot of times, when you’re a first-time mom, you just want to be so careful, and you overanalyze things sometimes. But I think your first instinct as a mother is always right.
Dania Ramirez
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
Florence Nightingale
I’ve noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
Jeremy Hunt
Russia has always been very careful to try to balance the interest of the Gulf states and Iran off against each other.
Fiona Hill
I do lead a careful diet, I don’t overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.
Bruce Forsyth
It is inevitable that popularity will fade. That’s why I must always be prepared. I don’t want a meteoric rise in popularity. I want to be an actor who can quickly get back on my feet after a fall. If I want to have a long-term career in acting, I must be careful about the choices I make.
Song Joong-ki
For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don’t rely too much on other people’s opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
Luke Evans
Be careful of success; it has a dark side.
Robert Redford
When I’m doing a play like ‘Betrayal,’ I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.
Zawe Ashton
The MeToo movement has made everyone more professional. The trashy aspects of filmmaking are now eliminated. There is certainly fear and caution among those men who think they can get away with any behaviour. At the same time, we have to be careful about not overdoing the enthusiasm of the MeToo movement.
Vikrant Massey
Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.
Geena Davis
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
Katharine Graham
I’ve shut myself inside these walls, and I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful.
Danielle Steel
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
You gotta be careful and just learn from your mistakes.
Prodigy
When I’m in the field, when I’m working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.
Peter Matthiessen
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.
Giancarlo Esposito
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encir

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies – and it is free, and it is fast.
Nicholson Baker
If I have a big shoot and I’m gunning to get into shape I’ll really be careful and consistent with my food but when I have a period off, I’ll be more relaxed and balanced in my life.
Chloe Madeley
I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.
Neil LaBute
I’m very careful with my media intake. I try and monitor it pretty carefully.
Asia Kate Dillon
People say to me ‘You’re a big Hollywood star’, and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I’m the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury’s. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I’d go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.
Amanda Donohoe
Film is subjective, and we must be careful with that. The kinds of films I love are those that observe, and I give possibility for people to talk. No need for me to tell people what to think – even when I make a film like ‘S-21.’ It’s only one point of view. It’s still a film; it’s not a tribunal.
Rithy Panh
I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.
Jeff Fortenberry
As a director you have to be careful you don’t over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
Stanley Tucci
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
The first time I baked, I failed a couple of times, and I made some mistakes and perhaps ended up with something inedible. Then I was a little bit more careful, and I learned how to do it right.
Jacques Torres
I’m very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.
Spike Lee
Investment by any foreign company in any element of the U.K.’s Critical National Infrastructure should receive careful scrutiny.
Dominic Grieve
I like Taylor Swift a lot. She has really fun, catchy songs. It’s so funny: I always say any guy that’s gonna date her, just be careful, because if it doesn’t work out, they know by now the next single is gonna be about them! I love how real she is. I really respect her a lot as an artist.
Rozonda Thomas
As cricketers and professionals, with the scrutiny that is on us, we have to obviously be careful and behave ourselves.
Moeen Ali
Most footballers are quite tense, aren’t they? So many footballers have been stitched up over the years. They’ve got to mind what they say, be careful about this, careful about that, because something might be misconstrued, twisted around.
Sol Campbell
An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney’s business and to business in general. It’s something I think we have to be very careful about.
Bob Iger
I know that one of my difficulties as an actor is to try to do too much, from all those years ago when my acting took place live on a stage. It was just my shiny face there, so you’ve gotta be super careful how much over-expressing you’re doing with your eyes and nose and so on.
Melissa Leo
You’ve got to take care of yourself, man. There’s a lot of stuff going around here nowadays with cancer and hormones and things like that they’re putting in a lot of foods. You’ve got to be real careful and stay as healthy as possible.
Julio Jones
It’s not like I don’t want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they’re not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I’ve said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful.
Kim Coates
I do a lot of planning and plotting. That’s my greatest weakness. If I’m not terribly careful, I’ll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.
Hume Cronyn
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they’re very, very careful. You can’t afford not to be extremely choosy when you hire.
Harvey Mackay
When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don’t get yourself in situations that you shouldn’t.
Stephen Baldwin
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
Maya Angelou
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that’s going towards the book.
Andre Dubus III
On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We’ve got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers – and there could be a lot of them – will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.
Howard Schultz
If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!
Richard G. Scott
The way I played, the way my body was all over the place, not thinking about being careful for the next game or anything like that, I think fans liked it.
Manu Ginobili
I do enjoy doing the TV work, but I try to be careful not to do too much. Otherwise, you end up being recognised just for being on television rather than for your own stuff.
Jon Richardson
I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven’t done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of their image and looking right, but there’s a wildness when I come into the photographs. I just want to wade through rivers, climb mountains.
Juergen Teller
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
e. e. cummings
'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters

‘Community’ is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.
Yvette Nicole Brown
NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.
Bob Inglis
I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
Sebastian Thrun