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Quotes About Prevention

He who sweats more in training bleeds less in battle.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.
~ George Washington
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
~ George Washington
I hope that, in a small way, I am interesting people in animal life and in its conservation. If I accomplish this I will consider that I have achieved something worth while. And if I can, later on, help even slightly towards preventing an animal from becoming extinct, I will be content.
~ Gerald Durrell
The Vatican was decent about that sort of thing. Protecting Jews not from oppression, but from too much oppression. Condemn the Jews to degradation, to censure as deicides, well-poisoners, child-killers, yet try to prevent them from being slaughtered entirely.
~ Gerald Green
15 to 20 minutes is enough—and rehydrate with fluids afterward. Taking a sauna even once a month was found to lower heart disease risk.
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Even a few minutes of meditation in the morning and evening can allow your lymph to flow to the more urgent needs of your cardiovascular system, for recovery and prevention. Meditation and mindfulness practice have been documented to lower stress levels, and decrease cholesterol and blood pressure directly. As
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
~ Thomas Wolfe
The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
~ Will Rogers
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
~ William Osier
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
~ English proverb
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
~ Horace Mann
Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.
~ Anonymous
Prevention is better than cure.
~ Erasmus
That which is escaped now is pain to come.
~ Proverbs
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.
~ Benjamin Franklin
For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.
~ Napoleon
This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
~ James Reston
It was said by one hon. Gentleman last night that it was of no use crying over spilt milk, and certainly the observation was a just one so far as regarded the milk already spilt. But if by crying one could prevent other milk from being spilt in future, then the crying might be a very useful process.
~ Baillie Cochrane, 1873
Age 30 & the 30s. — Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.
~ Chinese proverb
To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution, the stuff that has been accumulating for decades and doesn't go away by itself. But, two, we need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place.
~ Boyan Slat
Two-thirds of people with diabetes don't realize the seriousness that it can cause their hearts. They don't realize they can have a stroke, drop dead of a heart attack. So you've got to get this thing under control.
~ Dick Clark