Proactive Caution Quotes

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

The best defense is not to offend.

I always try to be safe; even when something looks dangerous, it actually isn't to me.

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.