Top 25 Prudence Quotes

Here we have the best Prudence Quotes from famous authors such as Francis Quarles, Luc de Clapiers, Francesco Guicciardini, Arun Jaitley, Warren Bennis. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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

Francis Quarles

You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Luc de Clapiers

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Francesco Guicciardini

In an economy where public spending is extremely important, the governments must spend, they must spend more but at the same time you can’t afford to be reckless and do away with all kinds of fiscal prudence.

Arun Jaitley

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

Warren Bennis

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia–Pacific region.

Lee Kuan Yew

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

Robert Peel

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

E F Benson

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical.

Dean Karnazes

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Bryant H. McGill

One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.

Joe Kaeser

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

John Dryden

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

Charles Horton Cooley

As stupid as it might sound, older people everywhere would probably be better off if they’d abandoned prudence and borrowed more. That is obviously not what the central bankers or our political leaders want. But that’s the situation they’ve created.

Neil Macdonald

The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.

M. S. Swaminathan

If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we’re stuck. Capitalism can’t work without safety nets or fiscal prudence, and we need both in a sustainable balance.

Thomas Friedman

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

Clara Barton

Fiscal prudence is very important.

Smriti Irani

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

William E Gladstone

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

Catherine McAuley

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Molly Ivins

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

William Blake