Prudent quotes
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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.
-- Alan Hansen -
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
-- Albert Pike -
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
-- Aneurin Bevan -
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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?
-- Archilochus -
Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
-- Atul Gawande -
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.
-- Camille Paglia -
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
-- Critias -
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
-- Dee Hock -
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
-- Euripides -
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It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.
-- George Washington -
Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.
-- Hesiod -
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
-- James Madison -
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
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A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
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.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.
-- John Andreas Widtsoe -
Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment.
-- John Elkington -
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.
-- Joseph Campbell -
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
-- Joseph Collins -
Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord
-- Kevin DeYoung -
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It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.
-- Martin Luther -
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.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.
-- Nathaniel Cotton -
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And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been treated or recognized at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to a prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli -
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
-- Periander -
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
-- Pope John XXIII -
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
-- Samuel Richardson -
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A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
-- Samuel Richardson -
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
-- Socrates -
A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
-- Sophocles -
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
-- Sophocles -
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While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.
-- Steven Chu -
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
-- Thales -
We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.
-- Thomas Traherne -
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
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I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
-- Werner Herzog -
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine -
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
-- William Shenstone -
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Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.
-- Vivek Shraya -
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
-- Terence -
Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.
-- Jeanne Phillips
