155 Danger Quotes to Inspire and Empower You in Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Success

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Danger can only be overcome by more danger — Greek Proverbs

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers. — Ayrton Senna

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. — Euripides

A danger foreseen is half-avoided. — American Indian Proverbs

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. — Daniel Defoe

The most dangerous thing is illusion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When danger approaches, sing to it. — Arabic Proverbs

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. - Alfred Adler

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler

What's dangerous is not to evolve. — Jeff Bezos

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous. — Winston Churchill

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. — George Bernard Shaw

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together. — Earl Nightingale

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. — John F. Kennedy

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. — Jane Goodall

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. — Richard M. Nixon

Short Danger Quotes

  • Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. — George Bernard Shaw
  • I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. — Thomas Jefferson
  • Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. — David Borenstein
  • It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. — Voltaire
  • Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous. — Queen Victoria
  • Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. — Zoroaster
  • The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory — Nizar Qabbani
  • Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada. — Farley Mowat
  • It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others. — Han Fei

Danger Image Quotes

People who make no noise are dangerous. - Jean De La Fontaine quote

People who make no noise are dangerous. — Jean De La Fontaine

Traitors are more dangerous than enemies. - Velupillai Prabhakaran quote

Traitors are more dangerous than enemies. — Velupillai Prabhakaran

Danger quote The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. - Shigeo Shingo quote

The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. — Shigeo Shingo

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. - Hannah Arendt quote

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. - Mae West quote

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. — Mae West

Danger quote Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies. - Jacque Fresco quote

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies. — Jacque Fresco

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni quote

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. — Pietro Mascagni

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke quote

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. — Edmund Burke

Danger quote The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.
The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.
Never was anything great achieved without danger. - Niccolo Machiavelli quote

Never was anything great achieved without danger. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother. - Moshe Dayan quote

Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother. — Moshe Dayan

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. - Helen Keller quote

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller

Danger quote Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
In some causes silence is dangerous. - Ambrose quote

In some causes silence is dangerous. — Ambrose

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. - James Thurber quote

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. — James Thurber

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake. - Proverbs quote

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake. — Proverbs

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti quote

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran. - Shirin Ebadi quote

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran. — Shirin Ebadi

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout. - Laurence J. Peter quote

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout. — Laurence J. Peter

Danger quote I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Clear And Present Danger Quotes

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. — Oscar Arias

Kofi Annan's kangaroo court [is] a clear and present danger to the war on terror and to Americans fighting it all over the world. — Tom DeLay

When preachers teach biblically and clearly about the judgment of God and the dangers of hell, men begin to see that their greatest need is to be saved from eternal condemnation, and the more "practical" needs of this present age become trivial in comparison. — Paul Washer

Danger quote A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is very, very dangerous man who has it under voluntary
A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is very, very dangerous man who has it under voluntary control.

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution. — Ban Ki-moon

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. — Theodore C. Sorensen

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. — Peter King

Danger quote The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet y
The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later .

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity. — Jonathan Sacks

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression. — Louis D. Brandeis

We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger which is crystal clear and perilously present. Let us take the guns away from the people. — Patrick V. Murphy

I think we also ought to prepare the American public, by way of informing them, that Saddam Hussein has these weapons, continues to attempt to improve their capability, and would not be reluctant to export them to other countries. So he presents a clear and present danger. — John McCain

Stranger Danger Quotes

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger. — Saint Patrick

Make the choice adventurous stranger, strike the bell and bide the danger or wonder 'till it drives you mad what would have happened if you had. — C. S. Lewis

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history. — Hanif Kureishi

Danger quote The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.
The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap — Angie Sage

Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger. — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears. — Francis Quarles

Danger quote When written in Chinese the word "Crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and t
When written in Chinese the word "Crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It's just astonishing to me, but not surprising in some respects, how dependent we are on the somewhat meaningless and certainly ephemeral feedback that we get from strangers on the Internet. I think that's a dangerous dependence to develop. — Tim Ferriss

The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain. — Ben Harper

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with. — Ogden Nash

Dangerous World Quotes

Now, some of the most dangerous places for women to be in the world are modern, Western, rich European countries. Why? One reason. Islamic immigration - it's got to stop. — Milo Yiannopoulos

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom. — Phillis Wheatley

It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars. — Mark Ruffalo

Danger quote Does anyone think that victory is possible without facing danger?
Does anyone think that victory is possible without facing danger?

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. — Albert Einstein

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. — Hermann Goring

The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose. — T. D. Jakes

Danger quote The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on a
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of falling altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic- however small- for any world to survive. — Terry Brooks

We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying. — Brené Brown

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born. — Warren G. Bennis

Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world) — Alexander von Humboldt

Love Is Danger Quotes

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. — Marcel Proust

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. — W. Somerset Maugham

I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love. — Molly Ivins

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. — William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. — Taylor Swift

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable. — Dick Gregory

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church. — Mike Yaconelli

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness. — Oswald Chambers

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. — William Irwin Thompson

Love Is Dangerous Quotes

Anger is one letter short of danger. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That. — Hafez

One thing I can say about our band is this. If you got something good to lay on us, enlighten us, but if you got something bad to lay on us, you can get your teeth knocked clean down your throat man. Dangerous people. Lovely people. — Duane Allman

I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years. — Carole Lombard

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. — Henry David Thoreau

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. — William Sloane Coffin

She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul. — Guy de Maupassant

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. — Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. — Mother Theresa

Knowledge Is Dangerous Quotes

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? — Thomas Henry Huxley

A little learning is a dangerous thing. — Alexander Pope

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics. — Eric Temple Bell

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. — Samuel Johnson

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous. — Confucius

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. — Terry Pratchett

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot. — Albert Einstein

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous. — Ellen Swallow Richards

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline. — Lewis Mumford

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean De La Fontaine

Dangerous Sports Quotes

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out. — Valentino Rossi

IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous. — Alastair Cook

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part. — Lewis Hamilton

But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box. — Ruud van Nistelrooy

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. — Erma Bombeck

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions. — Nevil Shute

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry. — John Newcombe

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous. — Sebastian Vettel

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now. — Ivan Lendl

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things. — Billy Sunday

Little Knowledge Is Dangerous Quotes

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. — Zhuangzi

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread. — Samuel Johnson

You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective. — Barbara Fredrickson

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. — George Bernard Shaw

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. — Terry Pratchett

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous. — Leonard J. V. Compagno

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. — Samuel Butler

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal. — Erik Naggum

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little. — Charlie Munger

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Danger Of Apathy Quotes

If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. — Edward R. Murrow

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. — Montesquieu

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy. — Winston Churchill

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction. — William Osler

Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses. — Richard Crossman

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More Danger Quotes

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. — Carl Jung

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. — Michelangelo

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker

I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. 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

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. — Thomas Sowell

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

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo

Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! — William Osler

Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live. — Oswald Mosley

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. — Morgan Freeman

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals. — Vladimir Putin

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state — Thomas Jefferson

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin." — Fulton J. Sheen

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