Top 53 Safety Quotes

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It is important that your make sure to stay safe. With that in mind, check out the top 53 safety quotes.

#53 – 50. Safety Quotes

53. The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. – Dudley Moore

52. Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. – Alexander Hamilton

51. A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt. – George Carlin

50. The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. – Goethe

#49 – 40. Safety Quotes

49. Better a thousand times careful than once dead. – Proverb

48. Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

47. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words. – Rainer Maria Rilke

46. Don’t learn safety by accident. – Painting

45. The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible. – Jeff Taylor

44. 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. – Diana Ross

43. Safety is a common denominator across all aspects of life, hence knowledge should always be shared. It is not a matter for industry it is a matter for humanity. – Doug Bourne

42. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. We must respect the past and mistrust the present if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. – Joseph Joubert

40. Working safely is like breathing – if you don’t, you die. – Jerry Smith

#39 – 30. Safety Quotes

39. I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now. – Grant Show

38. The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed. – James Madison

37. Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world. – Mary Shafer

36. The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. – H. L. Mencken

35. The horse is prepared against the day of battle, but safety is of the Lord. – Bible

34. Safety is from God alone. – Motto

33. Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. – Aesop

32. Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. – Jeff Cooper

31. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. – Lao-Tzu

30. There is always safety in valor. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29 – 20. Safety Quotes

29. One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth. – Abraham H. Maslow

28. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. – Kahlil Gibran

27. Safety is 30% Common sense; 80% Compliance and the rest is good luck. – Barry Spud

26. For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind. – Eleanor Everet

25. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. – William Shakespeare

24. The wronged side is always the safest. – Sibbes

23. One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note? – Jack Mcdevitt

22. The best safety lies in fear. – William Shakespeare

21. Safety First is Safety Always. – Charles M. Hayes

20. Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. – Samuel Rutherford

#19 – 10. Safety Quotes

19. He that’s secure is not safe – Benjamin Franklin

18. Choosing safety is a choice of life over career. – Warren Farrell

17. Safety’s just danger, out of place. – Harry Connick

16. Precaution is better than cure. – Edward Coke

15. Tomorrow: your reward for working safely today. – Robert Pelton

14. Safety brings first aid to the uninjured. – F.S. Hughes

13. It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. – Edward H. Harriman

12. One earnest worker can do more by personal suggestion to prevent accidents than a carload of safety signs. – Making Paper, E.R. Brown

11. To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

10. I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish. – Billy Crystal

#9 – 1. Safety Quotes

9. Better to be safe than sorry. – Proverb

8. Who can hope to be safe’ who sufficiently cautious’ Guard himself as he may, every moment’s an ambush. – Horace

7. Most people want security in this world, not liberty. – H. L. Mencken

6. I suppose that’s a common conceit, that you’ve already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, make you safe. – Lionel Shriver

5. The safety of the people shall be the highest law. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

4. It is better to be safe than sorry. – Proverb

3. No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt. – Clare Boothe Luce

2. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd

1. The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. – Tacitus

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