Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. — Helen Keller
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. — Alvin Toffler
Discretion is the better part of valour. — William Shakespeare
Better to risk a little than to lose the whole. — American Proverbs
I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second. — Phil Mickelson
If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow. — Heath Ledger
He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. — Publilius Syrus
I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck. — Ann Landers
Playing It Safe Image Quotes
A ship in harbour is safe but thats not what ships are for.
Not Playing It Safe Quotes
Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them. — Mandy Hale
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all. — Sophia Loren
Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process. — Henri de Lubac
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side. — Zendaya
Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience. — Sayings
The things that seem insignificant to most people such as note, song, or walk become invaluable trasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.
I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it. — Rick Danko
Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down. — Jack McDevitt
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well. — Jerry Juhl
In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride. — Jonathan Sacks
Safe Game Quotes
It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me, that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game. — Harlan Ellison
If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game. — Catherine Deneuve
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe. — Bobby Jones
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet. — Gordie Howe
Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up. — Steven Moffat
The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat. — John Muir
Carry out a randon act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could. — Ben Hogan
More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game. — Walter Munk
The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers. — Jeremy Silman
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. — Dave Brubeck
You can be good playing it safe. You can’t be relentless unless you’re willing to take chances. Safe makes you good, chances make you great. — Tim Grover
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. — Sophia Loren
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.
Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority. — Shakti Gawain
And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within... — Jimmy Buffett
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.' — Rosario Dawson
Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better.
Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. — Edward G. Robinson
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. — Shirley Hufstedler
Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play. — Thomas Szasz
If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe. — John C. Maxwell
Being Too Cautious Quotes
There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious. — Chrissie Wellington
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it. — Andrew Solomon
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw of the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity. — Yoshijiro Umezu
It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon. — Dick Vermeil
One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious. — Bahya ibn Paquda
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing. — John Lubbock
I think it's important to let kids be kids and be cautious about accelerated sexuality as pressure to mature too quickly. My hackles go up when I see a teacher making kids feel like they are older, special, mature. Let kids be kids. — Jessica Valenti
I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in that after a while. I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked. — Adam Braver
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me. — Babe Paley
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes difference.
The narrow conception of happiness that most of us have by default is something we’re tying to defend against all of the other things in life that are threatening to undermine it. The one obvious point is that it’s not a safe play. It’s perpetually under threat. Any joy you can feel, by virtue of it having arisen, based on some causes and conditions, is going to pass away. — Peter Attia
If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. — Woody Allen
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? — John Burdett
Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility. — David Satcher
It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second. — Sean Malto
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. — Alfie Kohn
Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world. — Zainab Salbi
As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all. — Mark Batterson
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given. — Barbara Sher
I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe. — Christian Bale
For instance, let us say that a new stock has been listed in the last two or three years and its high was 20, or any other figure, and that such a price was made two or three years ago. If something favorable happens in connection with the company, and the stock starts upward, usually it is safe play to buy the minute it touches a brand new high. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way. — Francis Chan
If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man. — Robert Kiyosaki
We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe. — James Badge Dale
The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk. — Bob Proctor
I remember a long, long day of filming and it took forever to get Kirk Douglas up on his cross. We played a terrible joke on him when, as he was safely installed, the assistant director called lunch and left him up there. He could have had the lot of us fired but he was very good about it. You have to have a sense of humor in this industry. — Jean Simmons
It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it... constantly go to the well... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins. — Peter O'Toole
The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk. — Benjamin Hoff
If you just want a comfortable life, the awards, and pats on the back then you play Christian Hip Hop safe. Because playing it safe will give you consistency, but if you're really in this to see peoples lives transform then you're gonna have to do some risk assessment - it is costly to rally try to impact people. — LeCrae
I realized the only time I felt complete and peaceful was while I was playing or shortly afterwards, even though it was in front of thousands of other people, which most people wouldn't consider to be a safe place. — Bruce Springsteen
But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are. — Gregory Chaitin
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