Safety Quotes and Sayings

Quotes about Safety

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.  ~William Shakespeare

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

Safety doesn't happen by accident.  ~Author Unknown

"Safety First" is "Safety Always."  ~Charles M. Hayes

Better a thousand times careful than once dead.  ~Proverb

Precaution is better than cure.  ~Edward Coke

As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.  ~Author Unknown

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.  ~Author Unknown

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?

Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

~Horace

Safety means first aid to the uninjured.  ~Author Unknown

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

Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent.  ~Author Unknown

Chance takers are accident makers.  ~Author Unknown

Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.  ~Author Unknown

It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.  ~Author Unknown

Luck runs out but safety is good for life.  ~Author Unknown

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

Accidents hurt - safety doesn't.  ~Author Unknown

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

The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.  ~Author Unknown

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

Know safety, no injury.  No safety, know injury.  ~Author Unknown

We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a manmade problem can be solved by men and women.  ~W.H. Cameron

Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters.  ~Terri Guillemets

Safety never takes a holiday.  ~Author Unknown

Danger never takes a vacation.  ~Author Unknown

When you gamble with safety, you bet your life.  ~Author Unknown

If safety is a joke, then death is the punchline.  ~Paul Laforest

Is better to lose one minute in life... than to lose life in a minute.  ~Author Unknown

While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work.  ~Author Unknown

Hearing protection is a sound investment.  ~Author Unknown

To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.  ~Author Unknown

Safety glasses: making foresight 20/20.  ~Author Unknown

Your safety gears are between your ears.  ~Author Unknown

Broken tools can be replaced.  You can't.  ~Author Unknown

Personal protective equipment is self-defense.  ~Author Unknown

Tomorrow - your reward for working safely today.  ~Attributed to Robert Pelton

Unsafe acts will keep you in stitches.  ~Author Unknown

Don't learn safety by accident.  ~Author Unknown

If you mess up, 'fess up.  ~Author Unknown

Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety.  ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938

Safety is as simple as ABC - Always Be Careful.  ~Author Unknown

Safety isn't expensive, its priceless.  ~Author Unknown

Be alert!  Accidents hurt.  ~Author Unknown

Alert today, alive tomorrow.  ~Author Unknown

Better dead sure than sure dead.  ~Author Unknown

If you don't think it's safe, it probably isn't.  ~Author Unknown

When safety is a factor, call in a contractor.  ~Author Unknown

Wishing won't keep you safe - safety will.  ~Author Unknown

Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die.  ~Author Unknown

The safest risk is the one you didn't take.  ~Author Unknown

Safety isn't just a slogan, it's a way of life.  ~Author Unknown