Profoundly inspirational safety quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Safety Quotes
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution. — Ari Fleischer
I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars. — Nobu Matsuhisa
Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation. — Dianne Feinstein
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I’m not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family. — Donna Reed
If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle? — Christine Pelosi
All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide. — Saoirse Ronan
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important. — Chris Hemsworth
Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety. — Bob Wise
Value will always be on top of everyone’s lists now, right along with safety. — David Neeleman
The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I’m given that choice, to go the way that’s not safe. — Sting
Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq. — Ron Lewis
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.’ — Elayne Boosler
You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation. — Judd Gregg
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace… on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. — William Drummond
Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. Thats more detrimental. — Dick Powell
We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo. — Vito Fossella
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. — Dudley Moore
The safety of the people shall be the highest law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country. — Roger Wicker
We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. — Paul Ryan
Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods. — Bill Lipinski
TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making. — Pat Mitchell
What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology. — Kamala Harris
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. — Ron Chernow
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. — Hillary Clinton
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. — Sally Ride
With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-hand-drive vehicles. Toyota will increase its outreach to government agencies charged with protecting the safety of motorists and passengers. — Akio Toyoda
When you go through some controversy and you see your face on the news in a negative way for 48 hours… you doubt yourself. And your friends make the difference. They become a safety net that come in and say, ‘That’s not the case.’ And the relationships that you’ve built… come to the fore. — Stanley A. McChrystal
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. — Richard Neal
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks. — Kunal Nayyar
Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. — Jeff Cooper
While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks. — Naoto Kan
My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future. — Bob Ehrlich
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. — Guy Verhofstadt
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. — Horatio Nelson
In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety. — Jim Ramstad
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. — Thomas Guthrie
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. — Dag Hammarskjold
For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president’s idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment. — Grace Napolitano
Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to. — Suzi Quatro
It’s very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home. — Linda M. Godwin
France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently. — Wilson Greatbatch
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. — Anna Julia Cooper
I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I’d jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy. — Shirley Bassey
I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State. — Henry A. Wise
Africa’s informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net. — Richard Attias
Let’s stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime. — Carrie P. Meek
In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods. — Zach Wamp
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. — Joseph Joubert
It’s clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That’s why we need a vaccine that will be safe. — Luc Montagnier
Food safety involves everybody in the food chain. — Mike Johanns
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. — Vladimir Nabokov
I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents. — Eric Lindros
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. — Ben Hecht
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. — Jane Austen
There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home. — Rosalynn Carter
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. — Alan Greenspan
The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don’t do any more work on safety. That shouldn’t happen. — Damon Hill
Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. — Andy Rooney
Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens. — Tom Vilsack
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. — Samuel Horsley
For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China’s continued development. — James Fallows
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we’re lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it’s worse than fear – it’s active disengagement. — Ken Burns
All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. — Gerry Cooney
I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little. — Dan O’Brien
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift. — Laurie Colwin
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. — Gavin Newsom
I support gun safety measures, and I’ll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country. — Eric Swalwell
It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. — Alan Shepard
It’s the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
There’s simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. — Chesley Sullenberger
Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. — Barbara Boxer
During National Playground Safety Week, I’ll celebrate common-sense safety. I’ll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I’ll celebrate so-called ‘dangerous’ playgrounds – playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides. — Darell Hammond
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society. — Carl Bernstein
If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people’s lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars. — Nina Bawden
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems. — Joe Barton
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society. — Blanche Lincoln
The Children’s Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties. — James T. Walsh
Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it. — Nevil Shute
I’ve spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety. — Gordon Bethune
States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities. — Corrine Brown
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. — Thomas Jefferson
You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England. — Robert Maxwell
Patrick Henry did not say, ‘Give me absolutely safety or give me death.’ America is supposed to be about freedom. — John Stossel
We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families. — George Pataki
Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce. — Todd Young
Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare – they fought to change government. And they won. — Sherrod Brown
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. — Steve Chabot
Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. — Carl Levin
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety. — John Ortberg
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. — Harold MacMillan
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might. — Theodore C. Sorensen
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. — Winifred Holtby
Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks. — Judd Gregg
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don’t necessarily offer safety and diversification. — Ron Chernow
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women’s safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. — Judith Butler
Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system. — Corrine Brown
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. — Maria Mitchell
I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety. — David Ginola