Quotes About Prevention

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with; if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fu...

I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun.

Never run upstairs when someone's chasing you. Don't try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.

Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

The most thankless decision I make is the one that prevents something bad from happening, because I can never prove that I prevented something even worse.

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

I had stopped watching it when the mutants dragged off the group's biologist to eat him. Seriously, this was exactly the kind of situation I was designed to prevent.

What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.

The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure.

probably end up reduce your risk of diabetes because blood sugar fluctuations are its main cause.

Allowing liquor on the res, close to where you lived, was supposed to prevent injuries and deaths caused by drunken driving.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

It's much more efficient to prevent problems than clean them up.

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 'ninety-seven: Wear sunscreen.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.