#caution

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all. ↗

— Archer John Porter Martin

#discouraged #every #first #often #precaution

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#chief #chief danger #danger #many #may

Throw caution to the wind and just do it. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#just #just do it #throw #wind

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto. ↗

— John Chafee

#exuberance #fiscal #motto #our #should

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. ↗

— Leon Kass

#caution #doing #engineering #enough #kinds

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#caution #daring #err #side #than

Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet. ↗

— Derek Landy

#baby-safety #child-safety #dingo #dingoes #funny

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. ↗

— Russell Baker

#hazardous #may #solemnity #these #verses

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes. ↗

— John le Carré

#circumspection #husbands #marriage #married-life #separation

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

#course #destructive #even #failure #inaction