Prevention Quotes

• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, 4th Of July, Safety

  sir John Barnard, Benjamin Franklin (1848). “A present for an apprentice [by sir J. Barnard]. To which is added, Franklin's Way to wealth. [Ed.] by a citizen of London [T. Tegg].”, p.288

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• Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.

  Don McPherson

  Waiting, Firsts, Happenings

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• Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

  Thomas Adams

  Healing, Sick, Labor

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• Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

  Bill Gates

  Treatment

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• A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.

  John Robert Colombo

  Cures

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• Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Disease, Diagnosis, Treatment

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• You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

  Ashley Judd

  Youth, Awareness, Aids

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• Prevention is better than cure.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Health, Lifestyle, Cures

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

  Walter Raleigh

  Daughter, Prudence

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.660

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• You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

  Marie Osmond

  Attitude, Trying, Happens

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• Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cancer, Health, Science

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• He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fitness, Health, Medicine

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• One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

  Anne Wojcicki

  Care, Reform, Aspect

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• One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

  Clay Shirky

  Our Society, Reactions

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.186, Penguin

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• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape.

  Groucho Marx

  Tape, Adhesive, Pounds

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.

  Neelie Kroes

  Practice, Looks, Cures

  "Britons face £3bn jump in gas bills" by Mark Milner, Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent.

  Francis Quarles

  Fear, Evil, Giving

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• Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.

  Laozi

  Mean, Taoism, Virtue

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• One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

  Roy Hattersley

  Thinking, Punishment, Our Society

  Roy Hattersley's remarks at the House of Commons debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. December 17, 1990.

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• There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Drinking, Wine, Two

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• Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Doctors, Medicine

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• Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

  Eva Vertes

  Cancer, Important, Problem

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• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

  Warren Buffett

  Pounds, Cures, Understated

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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