65 Security Quotes To Inspire

In a world where digital landscapes are constantly evolving, security has become a paramount concern in both personal and professional spheres. Whether you're an IT professional, a business leader, or simply someone who values the integrity of their information, the principles of security touch every aspect of our lives. To provide insight, motivation, and perhaps a little wisdom along the way, we've curated a collection of 65 inspiring security quotes. These words from thought leaders, industry experts, and notable figures aim to provoke thought, encourage best practices, and underscore the importance of vigilance in safeguarding our digital and physical environments. Dive into these quotes and find the inspiration to fortify your own approach to security.

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

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

3. “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

4. “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

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

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

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

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

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

10. “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

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

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

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

14. “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

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

16. “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

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

18. “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

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

20. “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

21. “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

22. “So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend's child, or in order to have a debate with the faithful. (When I was to be wed, I chose a rabbi named Robert Goldburg, an Einsteinian and a Shakespearean and a Spinozist, who had married Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe and had a copy of Marilyn’s conversion certificate. He conducted the ceremony in Victor and Annie Navasky's front room, with David Rieff and Steve Wasserman as my best of men.) I wanted to do something to acknowledge, and to knit up, the broken continuity between me and my German-Polish forebears. When I am traveling, I will stop at the shul if it is in a country where Jews are under threat, or dying out, or were once persecuted. This has taken me down queer and sad little side streets in Morocco and Tunisia and Eritrea and India, and in Damascus and Budapest and Prague and Istanbul, more than once to temples that have recently been desecrated by the new breed of racist Islamic gangster. (I have also had quite serious discussions, with Iraqi Kurdish friends, about the possibility of Jews genuinely returning in friendship to the places in northern Iraq from which they were once expelled.) I hate the idea that the dispossession of one people should be held hostage to the victimhood of another, as it is in the Middle East and as it was in Eastern Europe. But I find myself somehow assuming that Jewishness and 'normality' are in some profound way noncompatible. The most gracious thing said to me when I discovered my family secret was by Martin, who after a long evening of ironic reflection said quite simply: 'Hitch, I find that I am a little envious of you.' I choose to think that this proved, once again, his appreciation for the nuances of risk, uncertainty, ambivalence, and ambiguity. These happen to be the very things that 'security' and 'normality,' rather like the fantasy of salvation, cannot purchase.” - Christopher Hitchens

23. “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

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

25. “Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.” - Mary Balogh

26. “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

27. “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

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

29. “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

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

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

32. “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

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

34. “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

35. “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

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

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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “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.

41. “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

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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

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

47. “God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

62. “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

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

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

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