82 Inspirational Security Quotes

In a world where digital threats are ever-present, finding inspiration and motivation in the field of security is more important than ever. Whether you're an IT professional, a business leader, or simply someone interested in safeguarding their online presence, a powerful quote can serve as a reminder of the significance of protecting our digital treasures. In this collection of the top 82 inspirational security quotes, you'll uncover wisdom from thought leaders, industry experts, and historical figures who understand the vital role security plays in our lives. Let these quotes inspire you to stay vigilant, embrace best practices, and foster a culture of security in your personal and professional endeavors.

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. “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

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

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. “Sicherheit ist die gut ausbalancierte Freiheit aller.” - Heribert Prantl

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

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

12. “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

13. “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

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. “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

19. “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

20. “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

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

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

23. “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

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “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

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

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

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

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

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

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

46. “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

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

48. “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

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

50. “...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

51. “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

52. “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

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

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

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

56. “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

57. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

79. “Desire to give and not always receive.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

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

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