Safe Quotes

• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.

  Amanda Hocking

  Important

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• There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech in Washington, D.C., kinginstitute.stanford.edu. March 31, 1968.

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• A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.

  Martin Luther

  War, Weapons, Shields

  'Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott' (1529) translation by Thomas Carlyle

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• It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Heart, Religion

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.

  Richard Bach

  Wedding, Soulmate, Keys

  "The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach (p. 388), 1984.

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• Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

  Claude Bissell

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Better to be safe than sorry.

  Samuel Lover

  Sorry, Safety, Caution

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• If you don't think it's safe, it probably isn't.

  Jerry Smith

  Thinking, Safety, Ifs

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• I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

  Martin Luther

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

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• When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Names, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, War, Safety

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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• The way to be safe is never to be secure.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Safety, Doubt

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.272, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, People, Safety

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Niall Rudd (2008). “The Republic and The Laws”, p.152, Oxford University Press

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• Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
  Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

  Horace

  Safety, May, Moments

  Horace (1872). “The Odes and Epodes of Horace”, p.170

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• In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Evil, Childhood

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• Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

  Judith Viorst

  Children, Hair, Dancing

  Judith Viorst (1990). “Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations”, Thorndike Pr

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• Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Morality, Guides, Humans

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.

  Stacy London

  Beautiful, Mind, Spirit

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• Risk more than others think safe.

  Howard Schultz

  Thinking, Loyal Customers, Risk

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ignorance, Voice, Half

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.80, Random House

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  Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Life, Cute

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

  Lewis Francis Herreshoff

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Phony, Distrust

  "Management".

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