Top 51 Security Quotes

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Feeling safe is one of the biggest desires that humans crave for. With that in mind, check out the top 51 security quotes.

#51 – 50. Security Quotes

51. We have an illusion of security, we don’t have security. – Isaac Yeffet

50. No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.- Willa Cather

#49 – 40. Security Quotes

49. I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn’t come apart. – Janet Fitch

48. The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. – Erich Fromm

47. Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. – Joseph Wood Krutch

46. If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Kahlil Gibran

45. It’s an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. – Harold W. Dodds

44.The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one. – Mark Udall

43. There is nothing assured to mortals. – Horace

42. Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. – Germaine Greer

41. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

40. At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security. – Jodi Rell

#39 – 30. Security Quotes

39. Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. – Stephen Covey

38. If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it. – Criss Jami

37. It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. – Epicurus

36. Security is the chief enemy of mortals. – William Shakespeare

35. We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. – Aaron Sorkin

34. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. – Theodore Forstmann

33. Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. – Stephen Covey

32. Security and safety were the reward of dullness. – Hanif Kureishi

31. Only the insecure strive for security. – Wayne Dyer

30. Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. – John Foster Dulles

#29 – 20. Security Quotes

29. They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. – Captain James

28. We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. – Karl Popper

27. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

26. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. – Henry Ford

25. Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law. – John Dryden

24. It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

23. Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel. – Mark Gough

22. There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself. – Gilda Radner

21. I’m insecure about everything, because… I’m never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I’d like to look like. – Cher

20. Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. – Germaine Greer

#19 – 10. Security Quotes

19. For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. – Thomas Jefferson

18. Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. – James F. Byrnes

17. Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. – Germaine Greer

16. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin

15. When you know that you’re capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer. – Harry Browne

14. The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. – Jane Addams

13. Security… it’s simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you’re willing to deal with whatever happens. – Harry Browne

12. The ultimate security is your understanding of reality. – H. Stanley Judd

11. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

10. There can be no security where there is fear. – Felix Frankfurter

#9 – 1. Security Quotes

9. I don’t want expensive gifts, I don’t want to be bought, I have everything I want…I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure. – Princess of Wales Diana

8. Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad. – B. E. Hutchinson

7. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. – Henry de Bracton

6. Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. – Sir Winston Churchill

5. Attack is the best form of defense. – Proverb

4. No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Security is always excessive until it’s not enough. – Robbie Sinclair

2. True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

1. Security is no replacement for liberty. – Martin Firrell

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