Secures Quotes

Quotations list about secures, acquires and affirms citing Confucius, Joyce Meyer and Aristotle

  • He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

    — Confucius
    237
  • When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

    — Joyce Meyer
    151
  • The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

    — Aristotle
    37
  • 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
    21
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  • We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

    — Jena Malone
    16
  • The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

    — Erich Fromm
    15
  • To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

    — James Madison
    14
  • It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

    — Niccolo Machiavelli
    13
  • You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

    — Andrew Jackson
    12
  • First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

    — Proverbs
    6
  • Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

    — Margaret Cho
    6
  • The past is at least secure.

    — Daniel Webster
    5
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  • I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

    — Clint Eastwood
    5
  • Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

    — H. L. Mencken
    5
  • I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

    — Herbie Hancock
    5
  • Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

    — Elbert Hubbard
    4
  • To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

    — John Dewey
    4
  • It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

    — John F. Kennedy
    3
  • Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

    — Sophocles
    3
  • 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
    3
  • The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

    — Frederick Douglass
    3
  • No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

    — Miguel de Cervantes
    2
  • Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

    — Emma Goldman
    2
  • 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
    2
  • Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
    2
  • The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

    — Martin Luther King, Jr.
    2
  • The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

    — Clint Eastwood
    2
  • Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

    — Vladimir Putin
    2
  • Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

    — King Solomon
    2
  • The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

    — Franklin D. Roosevelt
    1
  • Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
    1
  • A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

    — Friedrich Nietzsche
    1
  • To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.

    — Meister Eckhart
    1
  • When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

    — Russel H. Conwell
    1
  • From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

    — Mark Twain
    1
  • Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, and you who read this.

    — Blaise Pascal
    1
  • Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

    — Ambrose Bierce
    1
  • I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.

    — Sylvia Earle
    1
  • I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.

    — Andy Rooney
    1
  • We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

    — Samuel Gompers
    0
  • With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thingbut health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

    — Thomas Jefferson
    0
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honour.

    — Thomas Jefferson
    0
  • God who gave us life gave us liberty.

    1 Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. 2 Commerce between master and slave is despotism. 3 Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. 4 Establish the law for educating the common people. 5 This it is the business of the State to effect and on a general plan. 6

    — Thomas Jefferson
    0
  • Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation Germany. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

    — Lyndon B. Johnson
    0
  • On completely popular government: Its superiority in reference to present well-being rests upon two principles, of as universal truth and applicability as any general propositions which can be laid down respecting human affairs. The first is, that the rights and interests of every or any person are only secure from being disregarded, when the person interested is himself able, and habitually disposed, to stand up for them. The second is, that the general prosperity attains a greater height, and is more widely diffused, in proportion to the amount and variety of the personal energies enlisted in promoting it.

    — John Stuart Mill
    0
  • 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
    0
  • Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base;

    And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

    — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    0
  • If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law;

    it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means 'to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal' would bring terrible retribution.

    — Louis D. Brandeis
    0
  • Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

    — Vladimir Nabokov
    0
  • They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.

    — Benjamin Franklin
    0

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