70 Best Password Quotes to Inspire You to Be More Secure

Following is our list of the most famous password quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational password quotes. Hopefully, these password quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your password knowledge!

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Famous Password Quotes

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers. — Chris Pirillo

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. — Clifford Stoll

Many of my personal passwords are still being held by the Chapter 11 team–to say nothing about data. — Sam Bankman-Fried

Let's try to secure everything. — Nick Szabo

Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords. — Pablo Neruda

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different. — Bruce Schneier

Wedlock is a padlock. — John Ray

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. — Richard A. Clarke

Locks keep out only the honest. — Yiddish Proverbs

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden

Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door. — Paulo Coelho

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems. — Bruce Schneier

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards. — Gene Spafford

All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door. — Nachman of Breslov

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. — Elbert Hubbard

Short Password Quotes

  • If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!" — Bear Bryant
  • The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. — Edward Snowden
  • The password is a flicker of an eyelash. — Adrienne Rich
  • Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred. — Deva Premal
  • I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password. — George Harrison
  • 'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution. — Phil Karn
  • I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy. — Walt Whitman
  • What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password. — Gilles Deleuze
  • Love is the secret password to every soul. — Anthony D. Williams
  • My brain's just full of passwords. — Karl Pilkington
Password quote Love is the secret password to every soul.
Love is the secret password to every soul.

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More Password Quotes

The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt’s view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes. — Glenn Greenwald

You don't advise people to buy and hold gold. You advise people to use software that shows ledger entries for gold held by strangers, the security of which relies not only on trust in strangers and their politics, but on PINs and passwords. — Nick Szabo

Password quote Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. — Kevin Mitnick

As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well. — Learned Hand

The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember. — Bruce Schneier

Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this. — Gordon Cooper

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Ebay was involved and gave up 150 million passwords. Target was attacked and gave up 40 million credit card numbers. Attacks like these are happening on a regular basis, both in the United States and around the world and the costs in terms of privacy or security in our financial sector are truly extraordinary. — Donald Trump

Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it? — Brian Friel

This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia. — C. S. Lewis

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. — Brooks Atkinson

It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld, open sesame! Yeah, that didn't work, either. — Rachel Vincent

I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different passwords? It's so frustrating that I end up just reading a book every time I try to go online. — Chelsea Handler

If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards. — Edward Snowden

The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes. — Glenn Greenwald

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards. — Edward Snowden

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get. — Junot Diaz

Lincoln Chafee, former governor of Rhode Island, announced he's running for president. Before he announced he's running, his wife went on Facebook and asked his staff if they remembered his password. Because if a Facebook password is too hard to remember, the launch codes for the nukes should be a piece of cake. — Jimmy Fallon

Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don’t know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be ‘Mad-Eye.’ Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night. — J. K. Rowling

The U.S. government is gradually homing in on the more important chat forums and websites. The problem is, by now, many of these sites have gone underground, in some cases, changing their names and domains, adding logins and passwords, and locking out anyone who doesn't speak Arabic. Government bureaucracies are simply not agile or adept enough to keep up with this constantly evolving challenge. — Evan Kohlmann

One of the things that came out of the campaign, as I recall, was a high ranking [Hillary's] Clinton official, I believe, sent their password via email. We also need to learn how to protect our own information. And I think that's important as well. — Rand Paul

Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere. — Martin Lindstrom

I changed all my passwords. I have no any two passwords that are the same for any service online. I have two-step verification enabled on all my devices...so yeah, I did take some extra steps that I hadn't taken before being exposed to this world. — Zachary Quinto

I hide my documents in many different places on my computer, because I often write things that I would never want anybody to read, at least unedited, and I'm paranoid that someone might figure out what the password to my computer is and maliciously read my Word documents. So a lot of the time I lose things I've written and/or completely forget about them. — Chelsea Martin

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption. — Phil Karn

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end — Isaac Mayer Wise

The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it. — Julie Klausner

Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer. — Hosea Ballou

I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition. — William Shatner

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America. — Russ Feingold

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