Secure Quotes - Page 8

• The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

  Richard Whately

  Fall, Errors, Facts

  Richard Whately (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Dr. Whately”, p.137

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• When people in organizations feel too secure, it's because there aren't any significant outcomes as a result of what they do. Whatever you do, nothing much different happens. This also means there are no important pay-offs if you risk by innovating. As there are no rewards for taking risks, then there's no sense of push in that institution's culture.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Mean, Organization, People

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• The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Education, Winter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1523, Delphi Classics

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• The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Home, Character, Doors

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• So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Happiness, Education, Opportunity

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• To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

  Edward Abbey

  Risk, Alive, Safe

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• We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Order, Church

  Letter to Comrade Molotov for the Politburo, March 19, 1922.

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• From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Careers, People

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• Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Military, War

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• We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.

  Mario Bunge

  Social Values, Goal, Wish

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Challenges, World

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• We are not here to give challenges to anyone, but we will also not take challenges casually. Our defence mechanisms would be the best in the world. A secure India is the first requirement for the country to progress and achieve new heights.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Giving, Challenges

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• Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God's messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Yield, Giving

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• A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Father, Blessing

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• Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

  Arthur Young

  Men, Garden, Rocks

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France”, p.37

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• I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.

  Daniel Webster

  Heart, Past, Boston

  Second Speech on Foote's Resolution, U.S. Senate, 26 Jan. 1830. Often misquoted as "Massachusetts, there she stands."

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• Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.

  Ani DiFranco

  Daughter, Self Worth, Long

  "Interview With Ani Difranco". Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• On a fundamental level - I know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it didn't work out, or they didn't have children because they were trying to get their careers going, or because they were expected to be independent, plus have a family. They didn't feel secure enough.

  Uma Thurman

  Children, Independent, Careers

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Giving, Childhood

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

  Alan Watts

  Insecurity, Trying, Results

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• The more Dad and Mom love each other, the more secure their children will feel.

  Jay Strack

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Jay Strack (1989). “Dad, Do You Love Mom?”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Firsts, Constitution

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

  Murray Leinster

  Thinking, Firsts, Cooperation

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, Baen Books

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