Jose Rizal Quotes

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Don’t taunt the alligator until after you have crossed the creek.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

Let's play it safe. I’m not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

It is the part of the wise man ... not even to venture all his eggs in one basket.

A man's own safety is a god that sometimes makes very grim demands.

The fish, once escaped from the trap, doesn't go back

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that.

You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.

Being prudent does not mean being fearful.

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

Be safe and be realistic. They're both equally important.

Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense.