Quotes about Prudent Action

Archilochus

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?

Publilius Syrus

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.

William Petty

As wiser Physicians tamper not excessively with their Patients, rather observing and complying with the motions of nature, then contradicting it with vehement Administrations of their own; so in Politicks and Economics the same must be used;

Calls for government restraint and small government are not something that only began in modern times.

Immanuel Kant

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Terry Pratchett

The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

John Hancock

In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, ...at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

It is not necessary to have an entire certainty in regard to considerable goods and evils; mere possibility, and much more so probability, is sufficient to induce a reasonable person to deprive himself of some trifling good, and even to suffer some slight evil, with a design of acquiring a far greater good, and avoiding a more troublesome evil.

John C. Calhoun

True consistency, that of the prudent and wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

Francis Bacon

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

Louis XIV

Always follow good counsels.

George Herbert

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
[The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]

Brian Tracy

Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.

Arab Proverb

Rely on Allah but tie your camel.

This proverb is often attributed to The Prophet and hence has special meaning.

Winston Churchill

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.