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When the danger is past God is cheated.
-Italian Proverb
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Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
-Scottish Proverb
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When danger approaches, sing to it.
-Arabic Proverb
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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.
-Chinese Proverb
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Between the anvil and the hammer.
-Proverb
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Danger past, God forgotten.
-Proverb
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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
-Proverb
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
-Aesop
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Every man is his own chief enemy.
-Anacharsis
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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
-Clara Barton
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Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
-Richard Baxter
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
-Bhagavad Gita
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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
-John Mason Brown
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Danger, the spur of all great minds.
-George Chapman
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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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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
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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
-Pierre Corneille
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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
-Pierre Corneille
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I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
-Alexander Dumas, Ten Years Later
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
-Havelock Ellis
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most dangerous thing is illusion.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
-David Lloyd George
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
-Baltasar Gracian
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
-Heraclitus
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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
-Hitopadesa
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
-Victor Hugo
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
-I Ching
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
-I Ching
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith, 1940
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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
-F. L. Lucan
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
-Francis Quarles
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
-David Sarnoff
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
-John Selden
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
-Marquise De SeVigne
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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
-William Shakespeare
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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
-William Shakespeare
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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar
-William Shakespeare
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.
-Raymond G. Swing
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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
-Publilius Syrus
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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.
-Source Unknown
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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-Karl Wallenda
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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
-Sir Hugh Walpole
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Books about Danger
