Prudence quotes

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◆ Self-belief is the first stage to build confidence and the ultimate stage for attaining excellence and in-between the man has to maintain successive patience, perseverance and prudence.

- Anuj Somany100

◆ Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

- Francis Quarles99

◆ Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

- Robert Lowth99

◆ It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

- John Dryden99

◆ In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

- Robert Hall99

◆ No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

- Knut Hamsun99

◆ There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

- Henry Fielding99

◆ Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

- William Blake99

◆ Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

- Aesop99

◆ Good nature without prudence, is foolishness

- Proverb99

◆ I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

- Bible99

◆ Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

- William Hurrell Mallock99

◆ The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

- TS Eliot99

◆ The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

- Jonathan Swift99