Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.… Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

—Helen Keller

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

—Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

—Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

—Helen Keller

Our character… is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

—Helen Keller

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

—General Douglas Macarthur

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

—Edmund Burke

A man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

—Henry Miller

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

—Greek Proverb