Buzz Aldrin Quotes

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.

It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The only people who aren’t criticized are those who do nothing, and I would hate to see the agency [CIA] get in that state.

At least from my position, I worry about it more when we're rolling because people get comfortable.

Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives