Do you feel it is better to be safe than sorry? Why?

hi kgwat70. Definitely I am a "better safe than sorry" person when it comes to health. I would never take a risk when there is something I feel definitely out of sync in my body :) Aside from that I tend to take calculated risk in other matters every once in a while. Not that I like to take risks but there are times when there is a NEED to do so. For the life of me I can't think of any safe approach I did that turned out to be the right decision....I'll get back to you..lol..save this space for me

They say the reason why things never get accomplished is because good people remain idle.. I am pretty much a "risk taker" I tend to jump into the frying pan and yes often times it makes me unpopular but I do like people to know where I stand.. TO be safe means you might have an opinion or want to do something but fear the consequences..I think we all need backbone when it comes to doing right;)+

I try to always go by this saying.I rather be safe than to have something terrible happen to me and regret it in the long run.I've had plenty times where I went with my instincts and they were right.

Hi K. How are you feeling? I hope better. I am a conservative person. I don't take risks at all. When I was young and foolish, yes, I did. Now, I am very careful with everything that I do. I find the safe approach is always mostly the right decision. Have a great day my friend. I have not been really active on here, so forgive me if I have lacked in any area with you.

I agree with the saying. When making decision, I used to think and calculate the risks first. If the risk is bigger than the reward, I will think twice and most of the time, I won't do it. If I am going to do it, I always have a contingency plan in advance. You can say that I am a moderate person. In our daily life, we often have to make such decisions.

Sometimes I will rather be safe than sorry but there are other times that I won't mind taking risks. Sometimes you have to take risks in order to get anywhere in life .I guess with me , what I am saying is it's according to the situation

i can be both...when it comes to safety of myself and the people around me, i tend to play safe. However, if it's other matter, i tend to be a risk taker, especially when it comes to getting away from job that i don't like eventhough it will means that i will be unemployed :D

It depends on the situation you are talking about when you safe than sorry. I think whe it comes to our health we should get as many opinions as possible to be safe but in other situations, I sometimes like to jump in and darn the consequences. (This is usually the 'shopping' me!) Haha.

It depends on what it is but I truly believe if you never take risks in life you can never exceed your own limitations. Safety has it's place, but should never be a constant in life. Face it, sometimes those risks we've taken have ended up in lifetime achievements!

I think its better to be safe then sorry. It doesnt always mean you will have the best luck or that things will all go your way. Its just a way to cut down on extra problems, dont you think?

The biggest thing for me was I just had to grow up. When I was a teenager---seems like 100 years ago--- I thought nothing of going with my girlfriend hitchhiking. We went at night because we rode with the truck drivers and we never had any problems they were good men back then, most of them were married men. Then after I was in my late 30's and on into my 40's I would think nothing of travelling with my daughter back home for holidays, just her and I. That was going accross provinces too by the way. I was never afraid and I never owned a new car, I've never had one. Now I'm 56 and I'd hate to see my daughter travel with her kids as far as I did, and if I ever found out she hitchhiked I'd had have a fit for sure. Times have changed. I'm safe now and I'm just lucky I never had to be sorry.

I believe that if you have already done a mistake due to the wrong decision that you've made, that's when we have to keep in mind always that it's time to play things safely already so as not to commit the same mistake again. So, it's always better to be safe than sorry. But if you feel you are sorry for what you have done, that means you learn from it and you headed forward not to do that again. Yet, I can also say that you would never know whether your decision is right or wrong without taking the risks. :)

I'm not a conservative person. I love to explore things and I love to take risks. We learn things by our own mistakes.

For some situations where I think I'd rather be safe and other times where I'd rather go with the flow without thinking about the consequences of not being prepared. It depends on what the issue is concerning. I can't really think of any moment where the safe approach was the correct decision.