Quotes about security

"Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens."

Browne, Harry on security
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"When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer."

Browne, Harry on security   

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."

Byrnes, James F. on security
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"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."

Churchill, Winston on security
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"Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it."

Covey, Stephen R. on security
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"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."

Diana, Princess of Wales on security
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"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."

Dodds, Harold W. on security   

"Only the insecure strive for security."

Dyer, Wayne on security
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"No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on security   

"Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on security   

"Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless."

Ford, Henry on security   

"There can be no security where there is fear."

Frankfurter, Felix on security   

"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."

Fromm, Erich on security
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"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

Greer, Germaine on security
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"There is no such thing as security. There never has been."

Greer, Germaine on security   

"There is nothing assured to mortals."

Horace on security   

"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."

Hutchinson, B. E. on security   

"Security will produce danger."

Johnson, Samuel on security   

"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."

Judd, H. Stanley on security
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"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."

Keats, John on security   

"God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work."

Keller, Helen on security   

"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without."

Krutch, Joseph Wood on security
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"Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god -- Society, The State, The Government, The Commune -- must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is."

Lane, Rose Wilder on security   

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on security   

"There's no security on this earth, only opportunity."

Macarthur, Douglas on security
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"Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward."

Maltz, Maxwell on security   

"Stability is not immobility."

Metternich, Klemens Von on security   

"Shun security."

Miletos, Thales of on security   

"The middle station is the most secure."

Motto on security   

"Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide."

Newton, Sir Isaac on security   

"All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins."

Ovid on security   

"I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong."

Rath, Dorothy H. on security   

"Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family."

Robbins, Anthony on security   

"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression gainst any neighbor--anywhere in the world."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on security   

"Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability."

Seneca on security   

"Security is the chief enemy of mortals."

Shakespeare, William on security   

"Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security."

Stettinius, E. R. on security   

"Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."

Sumner, Gordon on security   

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on security   

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."

Tracy, Brian on security
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