Edmund Burke Quotes

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.

Each person is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental, or spiritual.

You just always have to protect yourself. Try not to take any unnecessary hits.

I don't abuse my body - I don't drink much alcohol, don't smoke and never have - but that's the same of many people. I don't think I've ever stopped ageing myself.

I always try to be safe; even when something looks dangerous, it actually isn't to me.

Be safe and be realistic. They're both equally important.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

He does not keep company with those who wish to harm him.

Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.

Your body is the house you live in. If you destroy it...you have to leave!

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.

To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years.

I really don't do anything to break myself. As far as the damages to my body, I'm not a drinker. I let the gin and juice alone.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

No one will take care of you if you don't take care of yourself.