Danger Quotes - Page 9

• You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

  L. Frank Baum

  Needs, Faces, Kind

  L. Frank Baum (1998). “The Wonderful World of Oz: The Wizard of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz”, p.80, Penguin

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• The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Courage, Military

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1937). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• Dangers by being despised grow great.

  Edmund Burke

  Hate, Despise, Grows

  Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 11 May 1792, in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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• The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

  Boyle Roche

  Way, Best Way

  Quoted in Sir Jonah Barrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

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• Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Meat, Foe

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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Born Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Sea, Waiting

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.138

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• The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Math, Technology

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• Dangers breed fears, and fears more dangers bring.

  Richard Baxter

  Fear

  "Love Breathing Thanks and Praise, Part 1". "Poetical fragments heart-imployment with God and it self..." Book by Richard Baxter, p. 50, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1681.

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Moving, Unity, Promise

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• Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

  Daniel Defoe

  Fear, Thousand, Ten

  Daniel Defoe (1995). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Greatness, Enemy, Made

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Motivation, Real

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: Peveril of the Peak”, p.79

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• There's action only if there is danger.

  Howard Hawks

  Hawks, Action, Ifs

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• There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

  Francis Walsingham

  Littles, Too Much

  Cited in U.S. News and World Report (27 January 2003)

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• Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

  John Marston

  Safety, Trouble

  John Marston (1856). “The Works of John Marston”, p.174

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• Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

  Xunzi

  Lying, Journey, Hiking

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.186, Stanford University Press

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• In truth, men speak too much of danger.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Too Much, Speak

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
  [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]

  Tacitus

  Fall, Should, Ifs

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• Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Compassion, Criminals, Littles

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• That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.

  Decimus Laberius

  Despised

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• We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Business, Real, Cities

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• Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

  Leon Kass

  Powerful, Example, Cloning

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• WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

  Peter King

  Pregnancy, United States, Wikileaks

  "The World Reacts to Massive Diplomatic Leak". www.spiegel.de. November 29, 2010.

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