Tread With Caution Quotes

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~ Alexander Pope

Caution: Danger ahead. Do not refer to Adriana as little in regards to either her age or stature. If you happen to disregard this most basic of laws, approach with caution. Much, much caution. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness. ~ Leon Panetta

Always look to the positive,
and never drop your head,
for the water will engulf us,
if we do not dare to tread,
so let's tread water. ~ De La Soul

Confident because of our caution ~ Epictetus

What thou seest, speak of with caution. ~ Solon

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush. ~ John Ortberg

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
- William Butler Yeats, He Wishes For The Cloth of Heaven. ~ W.B. Yeats

Value caution in all your dealings with strangers. ~ Steven Redhead

Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take. ~ Josh Billings

Caution should always be the prime form of interaction or approach with any unknown quantity. ~ Steven Redhead

I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution. ~ Ingrid Betancourt

Curiosity is the other side of caution. ~ Temple Grandin

Caution is the lower story of prudence. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom. ~ Edmund Burke

Sometimes following God means throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes caution is a symptom of faithlessness. ~ Carolyn Custis James

There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. ~ Lancelot Hogben

Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. ~ Carl Levin

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution. ~ Jessica Zafra

Haste makes work which caution prevents. ~ William Penn

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world. ~ Shalom Harlow

The dead tread softly ... And those stalking the living tread even more lightly. ~ C.M. Palov

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution. ~ Erin McCarthy

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Tread lightly on your partner's heart. It was given to you for safekeeping. ~ Alexandra Katehakis

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. ~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution. ~ Chris Matthews

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution. ~ Bill Vaughan

If they had given in to passion, throwing caution to the wind,they would have lost everything. ~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. ~ Franz Grillparzer

Proceeding with caution and proceeding slowly are sometimes two different things. In certain circumstances, momentum could be more important than caution,
though it was never wise to dispense with wariness. ~ Dean Koontz

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto. ~ John Chafee

Courage is caution overcome. ~ Lyman Abbott

…there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart... ~ Umberto Eco

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. ~ Sun Tzu

So what's your second suggestion?"
"Tread lightly."
"That's it? That's the best advice you can give me?"
"All right, tread very lightly. ~ Sarah MacLean

Every religion is good - every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it. ~ Daniel O'Connell

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution. ~ Neil Gaiman

Call it not paranoia, but caution. ~ Laura Anne Gilman

From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept,
Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept. ~ Samuel Johnson

Distrust and caution are the parents of security. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~ W.B.Yeats

Life without caution is like a car without brake. ~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

One word of caution - be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair. ~ David P. Ingerson

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities. ~ Robin Marantz Henig

The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution. ~ Jim Rohn

The scars of others should teach us caution. ~ St. Jerome

Caution is the path to mediocrity. ~ Frank Herbert

In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead. ~ G.R. Elton

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often. ~ Robert Jordan

Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. ~ Josh Billings

We must substitute courage for caution. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice! ~ John Brown

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves. ~ Bram Stoker

Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day. ~ Bill Murray

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. ~ Alvin Toffler

I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom. ~ Sam Taylor-Johnson

In the double gloom of trees and fog, I could not see my guide; I could only follow his tread. Not the least fear had I: I believe I would have followed that frank tread, through continual night, to the world's end. ~ Charlotte Bronte

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
...
ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift. ~ Horace

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels. ~ Gerald Clarke

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand? ~ Lynne Truss

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution. ~ Ernest Gellner

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. ~ Frank Herbert

I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security. ~ Theodore Stevens

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. ~ Emma Goldman

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution. ~ Bill Rodgers

Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small. ~ Laura Huxley

You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers. ~ Robin Benway

Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains. ~ Deb Caletti

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have. ~ William S. Burroughs

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution. ~ William Bligh

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. ~ Publilius Syrus

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. ~ William James

I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance. ~ Wolfgang Schauble

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring. ~ Winston Churchill

There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram. ~ Jeff Abbott

If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide. ~ Rumi

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life ~ Richelle Mead

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ~ Nathaniel Parker Willis

Iranians also see external reasons for caution. Analyst Foad Izadi at Tehran University says Iranians only need to look at the chaos plaguing the region to see how easily popular demands for change can get out of hand. ~ Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth? ~ James Lee Burke

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution. ~ J. Oswald Sanders

A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better. ~ Enid Blyton

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. ~ Walter Bagehot

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ~ Ken MacLeod

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th
No need to have wisdom and sage
But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade
Do try to act more your age ~ John Walter Bratton

Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds. ~ Thomas A Kempis

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ~ Gary Ryan Blair

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. ~ Charles De Gaulle

I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much. ~ Marya Hornbacher

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. ~ Theodore C. Sorensen

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb. ~ Elizabeth Edwards

Enter upon thy paths, O year!
Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread,
Which lead the Living to the Dead,
I enter; for it is my doom
To tread thy labyrinthine gloom;
To note who round me watch and wait;
To love a few; perhaps to hate;
And do all duties of my fate. ~ Bryan Procter