Security Quotes

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.
Shirley Hufsteddler

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death
James F. Bymes

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
John Allen Paulos

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

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

In todays world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.

The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

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.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
Jean Paul Getty

Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.

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

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

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.

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.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

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.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen







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