Confucius Quotes

There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.

Precaution is better than cure.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

It's a dangerous world, man. You've gotta keep your eyes and ears peeled and be on the alert all the time.

He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

My love of cleaning is symbolic of my desire to rule the world... I always wear a seat belt because I enjoy being alive... and I like having two eyes, so yes to the safety goggles, too!

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

Don’t taunt the alligator until after you have crossed the creek.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

It's better to have security and not need it than need it and not have it.

Trust, but look for the exits.

Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

It pays to be prepared.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.