Prudence Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old prudence quotes, prudence sayings, and prudence proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. Edmund Burke
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk. Mason Cooley
Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
The eye of prudence may never shut. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom. Amos Bronson Alcott
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. Thomas Jefferson
The only prudence in life is concentration. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. Samuel Johnson
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. William Fleming
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched. Ovid
Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress. Amit Kalantri
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage. Niccolo Machiavelli
If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts. Edmund Burke
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. Benjamin Disraeli
Prudence is a euphemism for fear. Jules Renard
It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority. Pope Leo XIII
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. Thomas Hobbes