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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Biggest profits mean gravest risks.
Chinese Proverb
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
Paulo Coelho
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
Scottish Proverb
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Havelock Ellis
When danger approaches, sing to it.
Arabic Proverb
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 Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
Marquise De SeVigne
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Henry Huxley
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
I Ching
A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
Proverb
When the danger is past God is cheated.
Italian Proverb
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
Richard Baxter
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
