Top 580 Careful Quotes

I don’t go to the sale rack. But I wouldn’t say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
Madonna Ciccone
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.
Emily Carr
I always start the day with a cup of hot water and lemon – I find it really cleanses and hydrates me. I have very sensitive, dry skin, so I have to be careful about what I put on my face. My must-haves are Dermalogica cleansing gel and L’Or De Vie Creme Riche by Dior, which is thick and nourishing.
Eva Green
The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there’s not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn’t necessarily sign up for this.
Katy Perry
A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can’t foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.
Jim Murphy
What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.
Reid Hoffman
You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.
Fred DeLuca
A careful examination of the information available, from previous counter-terrorism investigations, demonstrates that police have never come close to having to release any dangerous terrorist suspects as a result of time constraints.
Dominic Grieve
If you live in the digital economy, you have to be careful to have your investment thesis squarely bolted into your reality.
Patrick Pichette
I’m a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn’t spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
Paul Fleischman
I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.
James Larkin
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
Adam Michnik
My wife, she likes to have things uncluttered, and if something is missing, then one has to be very careful not to ask her if it was thrown out – you have to ask her simply where it might be.
Kyle Chandler
Because I don’t have to be careful of people’s feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I’m teaching writing.
Tobias Wolff
There are times when you do have to bring animals into captivity to save a species like California Condors, or Arabian Aurochs. But they have something called species survival plans, and they do it in a very thoughtful way and are careful with the genetics.
Eric Goode
I’m very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We’ve got to be careful and make sure we don’t foul our own nest.
John Lithgow
You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right.
Ato Essandoh
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
Sophie Hannah
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
Camilla Luddington
There is a very thin line when a man plays woman. If you’re not careful, you may end up looking like a eunuch. If you don’t enact your role properly, you can look very bad.
Javed Jaffrey
I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it’s – I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I’m sort of a moth to the limelight.
Monica Lewinsky
You’ve gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.
Robert Trujillo
I’m always careful what clients I take.
Paul Manafort
I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don’t have fear.
Philippe Petit
You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn’t think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later – and vice versa.
Lisa Randall
People would say you need to do stretches and all of that. I would be very careful with doing that. I, if anything, go on a rotary weight machine and try and go as far as you can both ways, rotate as far as you can both ways so that you can create strength through motion.
Bryson DeChambeau
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isher

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood’s complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we’d say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
Edmund White
I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.
Amy Tan
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
Alice Walker
I’m not one of those politicians, to my probably discredit, who thinks very far ahead. It has to feel right to me and not be about a careful plot and plan.
Eric Garcetti
There are a lot of people who think that’s what’s needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
Amy Tan
If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.
John Wooden
Defenders must be careful yet decisive when taking action.
Becky Sauerbrunn
Sometimes I have to be careful not to work out too much because then it makes me so hungry.
Molly Sims
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
James Henry Breasted
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll
My grandma’s the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she’s doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!
Jeff Foxworthy
I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I’m careful around them. You never know what they’re going to do. They’re endlessly interesting. I’ve had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
Viggo Mortensen
And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don’t provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we’ve already got.
Franklin Raines
I’m careful about speaking about this, but I believe it is only natural to accept the mandatory military duty, and I will go when I receive a draft notice, no matter when that is.
Jin
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there’s no one watching you.
Tom Lehrer
The phenomenon of fame is literally invisible, but it influences and dominates your life if you aren’t careful.
Penn Badgley
Personally and politically, I’m extremely conservative for who I am, but I’m also very careful in my tone.
James Lankford
That is sort of the backbone for ‘Star-ving.’ People just assumed that I am completely loaded. I do all right. I have to be careful.
David Faustino
Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You’re not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You’re going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.
Paul Pierce
Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they’ll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.
Jaden Smith
When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.
Charlotte Rae
The truth is, I have made very few public appearances, and when I have, my parents have been very careful to allow me to have my own experience.
Maya Hawke
I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it’s a disagreement I’m having with myself. I can see both sides of the argument.
Curtis Sittenfeld
Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.
Keith Sweat
I want to be careful when I’m breaking down matches because I don’t want to offend anybody or knock anybody’s work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
With big, emotional roles it’s very easy, especially if you’ve grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
Laura Linney
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
Gavin MacLeod