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“As the old saying goes, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” But that depends on what the hand is feeding you and what the other hand is doing while you’re eating.”

Wise Honest Trust Eating Manipulation Feeding Cautious Trustworthy Hand Reliable

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Seek not to travel speedily through the rough streets of life, but seek to travel consciously and cautiously.”

Knowing Conscious Seeking Unconscious Rough Cautious Street Beware Slowly Quickly

Book:Sips And Little Portions

Source: Sips And Little Portions

“Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.”

“Be extra cautious when Women agitate other Men against you.”

Men Women Woman Cautious

Author:Sino Melo

“Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.”

“Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.”

Source: Sweet Destiny

“Be wary of the generosity of men; it could be a trap.”

Kindness Careful Warning Traps Cautious

Author:Bernard Kelvin Clive

“We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”

Life Truth Motivation Time Hope Optimistic Advise Cautious

Book:Earth Unaware

Source: Earth Unaware

“Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.”

Love Home Fear Sensible Cautious Still

Author:Taylor Patton

“Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are the proud emblems of a truly phenomenal life. The fearful, cautious, cynical and self-repressed do not live at all. And that is simply no way to be in this world.”

“among married couples the person who actually makes out the mortgage check is likely to be more cautious about spending money than the person who doesn't. There is something sobering about sending away that much money every month in the knowledge that, rain or shine, you'll have to come up with the same amount of money the next month and the month after that.”

Money Marriage Married Couples Cautious Mortgage Budget Rent Check

Book:About Alice

Source: About Alice

“If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.”

Hero Bravery Brave Caution Cautious

Book:The Conjurer's Riddle

Source: The Conjurer's Riddle

“Therefore, the pupils should be allowed to become adventurous instead of teaching them to become too cautious at an early age.”

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Book:Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“Sam woke to a feeling of utter, profound, incredible relief. He closed his eyes as soon as he opened them, afraid that being awake would just invite something terrible to appear. Astrid was back. And she was asleep with her head on his arm. His arm was asleep, completely numb, but as long as that blond head was right there his arm could stay numb. She smelled like pine trees and campfire smoke. He opened his eyes, cautious, almost flinching, because the FAYZ didn’t make a habit of allowing him pure, undiluted happiness. The FAYZ made a habit of stomping on anything that looked even a little bit like happiness. And this level of happiness was surely tempting retaliation. From this high up the fall could be a long, long one.”

Happiness Intimate Unbelievable Cautious Sam Temple Astrid Ellison Fayz

Book:Fear

Source: Fear

“I sat with my hands in my lap ready to agree with what anybody said.”

Anxiety Relatable Cautious Social Anxiety Rebecca Agreeable Why Is This Me

Book:Rebecca

Source: Rebecca

“We must be extremely cautious in inviting others directly into our sub-consciousnesses in order to avoid falling under their spells unknowingly.”

Success Quotes Spells Cautious Inviting Mwanandeke Kindembo Lack Of Knowledge Beware Of Negative Minds Directly Sub Consciousness

Book:Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“Be Clever even during your auspicious days.”

Inspirational Wisdom Faith Knowledge Trust Determination Encouragement Curiosity Pray Cautious

Author:Delphanie Frank

“Maybe the greatest power of all is the power of restraint.”

Wisdom Powerful Power Responsible Restraint Cautious Discerning True Power Judicious

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none ---ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, ACT 1, SCENE 2”

Cautious Shakespeare Open Hearted All S Well That Ends Well

Book:Sweet Love

Source: Sweet Love

“Being cautious ain't merely look after myself, but also keep me away from others' carelessness.”

Cautious Carelessness Look After Myself Keep Me Away

Book:Master of Stupidity

Source: Master of Stupidity

“Now she did not even wish to try, for fear of rousing up something terrible.”

Fear Terrible Iris Murdoch Cautious The Message To The Planet Rousing

Book:The Message To The Planet

Source: The Message To The Planet

“It takes a cautious swan to conquer a pond.”

Life Quotes Caution Cautious Vkboy Shambala Sect

Author:VKBoy

“Visit the bottom, visit the top! At the bottom, you meet ugliness; at the top, you meet beauty! Ugly world teaches you to be cautious; beautiful world teaches you to be full of hope! To survive in this universe, you need to be both cautious and full of hope!”

Beauty Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Bottom Cautious Teachings Top Visit Ugly World

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Life is fragile. Be cautious in life.”

“It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.”

Fear Dangerous Danger Scared Careful Cunning Cautious Paranoia Not Caring Manipulative Commonsense No Compassion Reaching Out Losing Hope Losing Everything Shunned No Filter

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Certainty and safety are both illusions, but certainty does the greater harm.”

Inspirational Insight Cautious Challenging Perspectives

Author:Robin Vale

“There has been a lot of serious discussion about artificial intelligence (AI : a computer program that can make its own decisions), whether we need to further develop AI or limit it. Some think we should carry on with enthusiasm; Some feel threatened already; Some don't even care, or don't understand. The variety of responses amongst human toward AI itself has already made me so worry. I think for the best of human interest, if AI development is already too difficult to stop, well then at least human must have full control over AI fail-safe mechanism. Scary version, AI has read this quote and anticipated it already.”

Risk Ai Artificial Intelligence Cautious Creature Pandora S Box Fail Safe

Book:Master of Stupidity

Source: Master of Stupidity

“Once bitten, twice shy; twice bitten, forever shy.”

Hurt Wounded Cautious Julian Barnes The Only Story Once Bitten Twice Shy

Book:The Only Story

Source: The Only Story

“Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.”

Source: Healology

“We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments.”

Needs Commitment Agendas Cautious Be Cautious Enlargement

Author:Olli Rehn

“The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation.”

Source: Writings of John Quincey Adams

“For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.”

Feels Long Wanted Parent Community Long Time Wasting Time Cautious

Author:Lily Rabe

“Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.”

Men Doe Given Pieces Fronts Kings Checks Queens Cautious Be Cautious

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.”

Wells Law Social Change Progress Well Being Organisms Preservation Cautious Social Systems Progress And Change

Book:Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

“Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or not, but it's more that it can be a strain on your relationships.”

Ifs Knows World Mean Genuine Our Relationship Strain Cautious Profile Be Cautious

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.”

Made Millions Reasonable Bucks Cautious

Author:Eli Broad

“Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.”

Risk Return Lows Cautious Risk-taking Be Cautious

Author:Bill Gross

“I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.”

People Thinking Kind Bits Activity All Kinds Witchcraft Cautious Reacting

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”

Wisdom Happiness Concern Investment Investing Quarters Being Happy Businessman Anticipate Cautious Great Happiness Self Happiness Be Cautious Looking For Happiness Attaining Happiness Admonish

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.”

Littles Accomplish Cautious

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”

“Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.”

Nice Ought Promise Superstitions Being Nice Cautious Broken Promises Breaking Promises Be Cautious Keeping Promises Kept Promises Promises That Are Broken

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.”

Firsts Ends Betray Cautious Treachery

Author:Livy

“You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,.”

Environment Secure Cautious Diligence Vigilant

Author:Daryl Hall

“To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.”

Support Disease Scientist Horrible Cures Cautious

Author:Richard Ashcroft

“Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.”

Moving Cautious

Author:Pitbull

“A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.”

Stills Hurt Heard Blood Rocks Arms Highest Spring Abuse Leap Ecstasy Mail Cheeks Wounded Steel Anguish Hunters Spy Cautious Deer Mirth Brake Hectic Smitten

Book:The Works of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Works of Emily Dickinson

“I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.”

Thinking Might Young Particular Sexuality Odd Hiding Fearful Young Women Embarrassed Cautious

Author:Steven Shainberg

“It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.”

Needs Girl Actors Fun Majors Mad Dancing Glimpse Respectful Cautious Perks Be Cautious

Author:Emraan Hashmi