The Best Positive Quotes About Safety

The word safety comes from the Old French sauvete meaning “safety, safeguard; salvation; security, surety,” the Medieval Latin salvitatem (nominative salvitas) “safety,” fand the Latin salvus meaning “uninjured, in good health, safe.”

The dictionary definition of safety is “the condition of being protected” and “the state of being safe” from a non-desirable outcome.

Safety also means understanding the hazards and knowing how to keep them under an acceptable 

Freedom, security, assurance, asylum, cover, and refuge are all synonyms of safety.

Some antonyms of safety include: danger, harm, threat, risk, injury, insecurity, and endangerment.

As moms, the safety of our children is a priority. Safety is essential in every way, because it is the most basic need. 

When one is safe, one can focus on thriving, rather than surviving. This is where growth happens.

Let’s explore some safety sayings and some of the best positive quotes about safety, so we can learn from others’ perspectives on this principle.

Positive Quotes About SAFETY

“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.” ~ Jeff Cooper

“When you gamble with safety, you bet your life.” ~ Author unknown

“Don’t learn safety by accident.” ~ Painting

“Safety is as easy as ABC: always be careful.” ~ Elayna Fernandez

“There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognize the hand of fate.” ~ Napoleon

“Safety isn’t just a slogan, it’s a way of life.” ~ Author unknown 

“Traditional safety is not enough, but traditional safety is too much.” ~ Safety Crusaders Anonymous

“There’s no safety outside of God.” ~ Beth Nimmo

“Better dead sure than sure dead.”  ~ Author Unknown

“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” ~ Tacitus

“If safety is ‘zero harm,’ then love must be ‘zero hate.‘” ~ Dave Collins

“A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.” ~ Proverbs 22:3

“Safety tip. When you see smoke run, never wait for fire.” ~ Danielle Sibarium

“Every Place where we feel safety is a Treasure.” ~ Jan Jansen” 

“People don’t care what you know until they know you care.” ~ Corrie Pitzer

“The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance, but non-thinking.” ~ Dr. Rob Long

“Carelessness doesn’t bounce, it shatters.” ~ Hartman Jule

“Love is a magical shelter where you will feel yourself safe beneath it!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

“Tomorrow, your reward for working safely today.” ~ Robert Pelton

“Freedom isn’t a static point. It’s spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.” ~ M.L. Wulf

“I never thought I’d hear myself say it, but safety first!” ~ J.K. Rowling

“Let’s manage safety recognizing how humans are and stop managing safety the way we wish humans were.” ~ Alan Quilley

“Your safety gears are between your ears.” ~ Author unknown

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” ~ Mark Twain

“Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market pages.” ~ Irene Peter

“Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.” ~ Hugh Walpole

“For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.” ~ Eleanor Everet

“Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it.” ~ Author unknown

“Don’t kid about Safety; you may be the goat.” ~ Gary Works

“Safety doesn’t happen by accident.” ~ Author unknown

“Better a thousand times careful than once dead.” ~ Proverb

“Precaution is better than cure.” ~ Edward Coke

“Prepare and prevent, don’t repair and repent.” ~ Author unknown

“Luck runs out but safety is good for life.” ~ Author unknown

“The danger which is least expected soonest comes to us.” ~ Voltaire

“Accidents hurt — safety doesn’t.” ~ Author unknown

“The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.” ~ Author unknow

“Safety never takes a holiday.” ~ Author unknown

“Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen – they are caused.” ~ Ernest Greenwood

“The future of the safety movement is not so much dependent upon the invention of safety devices as on the improvement of methods of educating people to the ideal of caution and safety.” ~ Walter Dill Scott

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.” ~ James Thurber

“Nothing is of greater importance than the conservation of human life.” ~ Calvin Coolidge

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.” ~ Horace Mann

“One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.” ~ Publilius Syrus

“Safety’s just danger, out of place.” ~ Harry Connick, Jr.

“Public trust is essential to public safety.” ~ Martin O’Malley

“It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.” ~ Friedrich Schiller

“The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.” ~ Virgil

“Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.” ~ Herman Kahn

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Luck runs out but safety is good for life.” ~ Author unknown

“Through danger safety comes – through trouble rest.” ~ John Marston

“Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.” ~ Author unknown

“Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety..” ~ Virgil

“Living in the past or living in the future – those aren’t real. The moment is now, and that’s where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.” ~ Marc Jacobs

“Precaution is better than cure.” ~ Edward Coke

“Safety is 30% common sense, 80% compliance, and the rest is good luck.” ~ Barry Spud

“Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.” ~ Horace

“Safety brings first aid to the uninjured.” ~ F.S. Hughes

“Chance takers are accident makers.” ~ Author unknown

“Safety First is Safety Always.” ~ Charles M. Hayes

“Teaching the world to be careful is a constructive service worthy of God’s great gift of life to man.” ~ Harold H. Burton

“Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.” ~ Author unknown

“Shallow men believe in luck; wise and strong men in the cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.” ~ Author unknown

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long time ago.” ~ Warren Buffet

“Safety isn’t expensive, its priceless.” ~ Author unknown

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.” ~ Jodi Rell

“Safety applies with equal force to the individual, to the family, to the employer, to the state, the nation, and to international affairs. Safety, in the wildest sense, concerns the happiness, contentment, and freedom of mankind.” ~ William M. Jeffers

“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Know safety, no injury. No safety, know injury.” ~ Author unknown

“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.” ~ Aeschylus

“Fear is the foundation of safety.” ~ Tertullian

“Working without safety is a dead-end job.” ~ Author Unknown

“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” ~ Tacitus

“Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.” ~ Aesop

Learning safety is critical and teaching safety is required in motherhood. I hope these positive quotes about safety gave you something to think about.

Sure you will need to get out of your comfort zone to live a life you love, so make sure you put both your heart and your mind at work when making a choice.

What are your favorite positive quotes about safety? Tell us which of these safety quotes helped you most and why!

Founder of the Positive MOM® and creator of the S.T.O.R.Y. System: a blueprint to craft and share powerful stories that will transform your results and help others do the same. Dr. Elayna Fernández is a single mom of 4, an award-winning Storyteller, Story Strategist, and Student of Pain. She’s a bestselling author, internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, and 5x TEDx speaker. She has spoken at the United Nations, received the President’s Volunteer Lifetime Achievement Award, and was selected as one of the Top Impactful Leaders and a Woman of Influence by SUCCESS Magazine. Connect with Elayna at thepositivemom.com/ef and follow @thepositivemom. To receive a gift from Elayna, click HERE.

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