#Prevention Quotes

“A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.”

“I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.”

“It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter”

“It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.”

“The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.”

“My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.”

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.”

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.”

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.”

“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.”

“The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.”

“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.”

“Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.”

“I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”

“People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.”

“I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.”

“I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.”

“That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'”

“I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?”

“I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.”

“as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure”

“Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.”

“I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.”

“Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.”

“Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.”

“Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.”

“Meet the big while it is small.”

“Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.”

“It is easier to stay out than get out.”

“The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.”

“Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.”

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.”

“Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.”

“Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.”

“Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.”

“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.”

“If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.”

“It's better to prepare than to repair.”

“Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.”

“This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.”

“The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.”

“Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.”

“To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.”

“It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.”

“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.”

“I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.”

“A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.”

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape.”

“Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.”

“We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.”