Secure Quotes

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, Hope, Justice

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry

May, Nor, Rulers

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Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
Meister Eckhart

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

Life, Change, Power

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama

Work, Family, Health

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

Peace, War, Powerful

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

Wise, Pain, Aim

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Fact

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Hate

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Against, Lies

He that's secure is not safe.
Benjamin Franklin

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine

Enemy, Liberty, Himself

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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey

Happiness, Find, Key

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

Insecurity, Able, Ourselves

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood

Fact, Less, Interested

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela

Cannot, Within, Israel

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Others, Another

There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
Charles Stanley

Love, Deep, Through

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood

Less, Prejudice, Likely

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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides

Friends, Accepting, Favors

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass

Life, Honest, Nation

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.
Princess Diana

Someone, Everything, Safe

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Insecurity, Person, Able

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
Mitt Romney

Respect, Help, Give

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You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
Andrew Jackson

Wish, Blessing, Pay

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
Abraham Maslow

Good, Feelings, Give

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

Feeling, Suspicious

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mind, Security, Tradition

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Humphry Davy

Life, Great, Kindness

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