Hazards Quotes

• Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

  Shirley Williams

  Doe, Doing Nothing, Greater

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• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Liberty, Libertarian

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Safety, Risk, Aviation

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• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Worst

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  I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

  Frederick Douglass

  Respect, Fear, Integrity

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Deep Love, Climbing

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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• Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, Progress, Sides

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• To worry is to add another hazard.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Worry, Add

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.12, Crown

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• In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

  Barry Commoner

  Independent, Environmental, Corporations

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

  John Henry Newman

  Ends, Ifs

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (1844). “Sermons: Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief”, p.135, Aeterna Press

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• Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

  Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena

  Men, Advice, Wealth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Conde Lucanor, 1922.

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• The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

  Edith Hamilton

  Life, Fullness, Inspirational Life

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

  Sam Snead

  Anticipation, Scared, Tense

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• A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Courage, Men, Brave

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.577

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• Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Worry, Finding Yourself, Detours

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.40, Multnomah

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• Men that hazard all
  Do it in hope of fair advantages:
  A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Golden

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 7, l. 18

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• The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

  Leon Kass

  Powerful, Progress, Benefits

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• Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

  Amelia Earhart

  Courage, Women, Failure

  Letter to George Putnam, 1937

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• The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Quality, Care, Radiation

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• I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Integrity, Justice, Independence

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• What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

  James Madison

  Branches, May, Prudent

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.288

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• A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Dare

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.365

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• Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

  Loni Anderson

  Smoking, Cigarette, Fetish

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• With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.

  John Dickinson

  Perseverance, Heart, Reflection

  John Dickinson (1891). “The Life and Writings of John Dickinson”

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