"Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety."
Read quote
6 likes
Safety quotes
Safety
1.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Safety
Browse quotes that often appear alongside safety — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Safety quotes (page 9 of 57)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."
Read quote
6 likes
"When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred."
Read quote
6 likes
"With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me."
Read quote
6 likes
"The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized."
Read quote
6 likes
"Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision."
Read quote
6 likes
"The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on."
Read quote
6 likes
"There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which] gives you an entirely different view than most people who are in the market. [The second principle is the margin-of-safety concept, which] gives you the competitive advantage. [The third is having a true investor's attitude toward the stock market, which] if you have that attitude, you start out ahead of 99 percent of all the people who are operating in the stock market - it's an enormous advantage."
Read quote
6 likes
"The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety."
Read quote
6 likes
"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."
Read quote
6 likes
"We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?"
Read quote
6 likes
"Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly."
Read quote
6 likes
"The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits."
Read quote
6 likes
"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."
Read quote
6 likes
"During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety."
Read quote
6 likes
"The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people."
Read quote
6 likes
"Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness."
Read quote
6 likes
"Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered."
Read quote
6 likes
"He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it."
Read quote
6 likes
"To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance."
Read quote
6 likes