Prudence Quotes

• I am sure that in the next weeks and at the end of the electoral race prudence and the fundamental unity of the Mexicans will prevail at the slightest hint of intolerance or illegality.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Race
  • Mexicans
  • Illegality

• But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?

  

  Geraldine Jewsbury
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Selfish

• There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Talent
  • Speech
  • Reach

• There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

  

  Peter V. Brett
  • Wisdom
  • Battle
  • Prudence

• Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end

  

  Edward Whymper
  • Remember
  • Destroy
  • Lifetime

• It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Opinion
  • Walking
  • Dare

• Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

  

  William Fleming
  • Common
  • Degrees
  • Employed

• Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Shame
  • Guilt
  • Misfortune

• As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Game
  • Excitement
  • Prudence

• Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Crime
  • Prudence

• We accomplish more by prudence than by force.

  

  Tacitus
  • Force
  • Accomplish
  • Prudence

• There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Learn

• Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Air
  • Ambition
  • Fortune

• Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Career
  • Rule
  • Labor

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