125 Inspiring Security Quotes

In today's fast-paced digital world, security is more than just a necessity—it's a cornerstone of trust, innovation, and resilience. Whether in technology, personal safety, or national defense, the principles of security are paramount in maintaining stability and fostering growth. This collection of 125 inspiring security quotes is designed to stimulate thought, ignite passion, and provide valuable insights from experts, leaders, and thinkers who have navigated the complex landscape of protecting what matters most. Dive in to explore how security transcends the technical realm, touching the spheres of human behavior, ethics, and societal well-being. Let these quotes inspire you to think more critically about safety in our increasingly interconnected world.

1. “Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.” - H.L. Mencken

2. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” - Henry David Thoreau

3. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

4. “He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)” - C. S. Lewis

5. “make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.” - Jon Krakauer

6. “In a pine tree,A few yards away from my window sill,A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and down,On a branch.I laugh, as I see him abandon himselfTo entire delight, for he knows as well as I doThat the branch will not break.” - James Wright

7. “Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.” - J. Krishnamurti

8. “A false sense of security is the only kind there is.” - Michael Meade

9. “Der Präventionsstaat muss [...] dem Bürger immer mehr Freiheiten nehmen, um ihm dafür Sicherheit zu geben.” - Heribert Prantl

10. “In einem maßlosen Staat [...] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.” - Heribert Prantl

11. “Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit.” - Hanif Kureishi

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

14. “I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.” - Roger Zelazny

15. “If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .” - Sun Tzu

16. “Sensitive to symptoms could enhance security.” - Toba Beta

17. “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” - James Baldwin

18. “Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.” - Elisabeth Elliot

19. “A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.” - Vimala McClure

20. “The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.” - Ernst Jünger

21. “Security and safety were the reward of dullness.” - Hanif Kureishi

22. “It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.” - John Wyndham

23. “We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.” - Ronald Reagan

24. “We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.” - Ronald Reagan

25. “If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

26. “Nichts ist stabiler als die Fahrt in den Abgrund.” - Juli Zeh

27. “Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist hostess approached him."Are you Mr. Mark Parker?""Guilty.” - Leon Uris

28. “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

29. “most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

30. “The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.” - Janet Fitch

31. “I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.” - Jon Krakauer

32. “He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:And you all know, securityIs mortals' chiefest enemy.” - William Shakespeare

33. “This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.” - Jodi Picoult

34. “The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never mine. It is only the sanguinary hue of our penal laws which I meant to object to. Punishments I know are necessary, and I would provide them strict and inflexible, but proportioned to the crime. Death might be inflicted for murder and perhaps for treason, [but I] would take out of the description of treason all crimes which are not such in their nature. Rape, buggery, etc., punish by castration. All other crimes by working on high roads, rivers, gallies, etc., a certain time proportioned to the offence... Laws thus proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the lawgiver, but let the judge be a mere machine. The mercies of the law will be dispensed equally and impartially to every description of men; those of the judge or of the executive power will be the eccentric impulses of whimsical, capricious designing man.” - Thomas Jefferson

35. “Michael Rafferty was a goodman. A solid man. He was never going to be Hugh Jackman handsome or Bill Gates rich or King of England powerful. But he was hers and he was Sean's and that was more than enough” - J.R. Ward

36. “If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared.(pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")” - Wendell Berry

37. “Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.” - Slavoj Žižek

38. “You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...” - Wilhelm Reich

39. “To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.” - Walter M. Miller Jr.

40. “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

41. “Fewer than one in twenty security professionals has the core competence and the foundation knowledge to take a system all the way from a completely unknown state of security through mapping, vulnerability testing, password cracking, modem testing, vulnerability patching, firewall tuning, instrumentation, virus detection at multiple entry points, and even through back-ups and configuration management.” - Stephen Northcutt

42. “Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as they were walking along the main street, it suddenly began to rain and, as if on command, there was an umbrella over every head. That was a symbol of cowardice and vulgar effeminacy, the end product of civilization. An incident like the sinking of the Titanic was atavistic, true, but its effect was most refreshing, it was the handwriting on the wall. Afterward, of course, came the hue and cry for more security in shipping. How pitiful, but such weak-willed humanitarianism squared very nicely with the wolfish cruelty and villainy of slaughter on the economic battlefield known as the bourgeois state. War, war ! He was all for it – the universal lust for war seemed quite honorable in comparison.” - Thomas Mann

43. “If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” - Henry Ford

44. “Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24. As Israel's people abandon their defense entirely to have a feast before Him three times per year, God says the surrounding peoples will be entirely devoid of even the logical desire to possess their land.” - Jerry Bridges

45. “When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.” - Jim Anderson

46. “You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.” - C.S. Lewis

47. “Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn't a trick, was to take up at once the thing you saw and the reason you saw it as well; to always bite off more than you could chew, and then chew it. If it were self-indulgence for him to cut and polish his semiprecious memories, and yet seem like danger, like a struggle he was unfit for, then self-indulgence was a potent force, he must examine it, he must reckon with it.” - John Crowley

48. “Jed thought he understood. It was like when his radios were thrown away. You could shrug your shoulders, put on a face that said you didn't care, but you did and nothing could ever be secure again. The next time security appeared as a possibility, you smashed it yourself. And went on smashing it. That, he was sure, was how Creed felt.” - Rupert Thomson

49. “It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.” - Criss Jami

50. “The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.” - Criss Jami

51. “There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism--as frightening as that is--but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security.” - David K. Shipler

52. “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” - Maya Angelou

53. “A safe army is better than a safe border” - Bhim Rao Ambedkar

54. “We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security” - M.T. Anderson

55. “Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of loss and the aloneness, the utter defenselessness that was each man's lot, sealed up in his bee cell from all the others in the world. But the smelling of boiling vegetables and pork reached him from the inside, the aloneness left him for a while. The warm moist smell promised other people lived and were preparing supper.He listened to the pouring and the thunder rumblings that sounded hollow like they were in a rainbarrel, shared the excitement and the coziness of the buzzing insects that had sought refuge on the porch, and now and then he slapped detachedly at the mosquitoes, making a sharp crack in the pouring buzzing silence. The porch sheltered him from all but the splashes of the drops that hit the floor and their spray touched him with a pleasant chill. And he was secure, because someewhere out beyond the wall of water humanity still existed, and was preparing supper.” - James Jones

56. “Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.” - Mark Gough

57. “God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

58. “Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

59. “Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

60. “The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

61. “It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.” - Jefferson Smith

62. “Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed.” - Bruce Schneier

63. “How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.” - Sylvia Plath

64. “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

65. “Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

66. “If we feel secureIn the depths of our heart,We shall not challenge anybody,For inner confidenceIs nothing short ofComplete satisfaction.” - Sri Chinmoy

67. “...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...” - John Geddes

68. “The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through the D vehicle of common-law maxims and presumptions which may be altered or repealed by statute, but are now protected by entrenched constitutional provisions which neither the Legislature nor the Executive may abridge. It would accordingly be improper for us to hold constitutional a system which, as Sachs J has noted, confers on creditors the power to consign the person of an impecunious debtor to prison at will and without the interposition at the crucial time of a judicial officer.” - Pius Langa

69. “Mammals require three essentials in life, identity, stimulation, and security, and by far the most important of these three psychological cornerstones is identity.” - David Sheldrick

70. “My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.” - J.D. Greear

71. “It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.” - J.D. Greear

72. “At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.” - Warren Ellis

73. “There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.” - Criss Jami

74. “We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.” - Aaron Sorkin

75. “The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.” - Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

76. “This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.” - Patricia Briggs

77. “The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.” - Tove Jansson

78. “Expecting to receive a rebuke, her heart lifted when she read the words on the page, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” - J.E.B. Spredemann

79. “When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, ‘What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?’ It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger.” - Timothy Keller

80. “The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.” - George Eliot

81. “A house without security cannot be a home!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

82. “Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.” - Alexandre Dumas

83. “Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

84. “Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

85. “There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

86. “In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

87. “Ride higher in life unto the higher life.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

88. “Don`t descend to the lowest ebb.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

89. “Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

90. “Don`t turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

91. “Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

92. “Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

93. “Life is beautiful if you take the best option.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

94. “It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

95. “Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

96. “There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

97. “Sow good seeds for a good yield.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

98. “Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

99. “You have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

100. “Build up your faith while starving the fears.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

101. “The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.” - Anthony Liccione

102. “Avoid conflicts, Embrace cordiality.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

103. “Relish what is good and expedient.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

104. “Eschew evil and it`s machinations.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

105. “Sow the right words! Think the good thought.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

106. “Have the best course for all your actions.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

107. “Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

108. “Don`t complain, Don`t compromise.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

109. “Always contend for the good!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

110. “Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

111. “Drown those degrading thoughts.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

112. “Shine forth your light before all beings.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

113. “Light is life and always wins.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

114. “Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

115. “The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

116. “Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

117. “You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

118. “The trees around and overhead were so thick that it was always dry inside and on Sunday morning I lay there with Jonas, listening to his stories. All cat stories start with the statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this," and I lay with my head close to Jonas and listened. There was no change coming, I thought here, only spring; I was wrong to be so frightened. The days would get warmer, and Uncle Julian would sit in the sun, and Constance would laugh when she worked in the garden, and it would always be the same. Jonas went on and on ("And then we sang! And then we sang!") and the leaves moved overhead and it would always be the same.” - Shirley Jackson

119. “Trust in Jesus, wholeheartedly. Don't try to figure things out yourself. Just be intimate with Him!” - Gary F. Patton

120. “Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice.” - Anyaele Sam Chiyson

121. “Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.” - John G. Hemry

122. “Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.” - Jack Campbell

123. “Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

124. “We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.” - Bryant McGill

125. “After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...” - Neil Gaiman