Quotes About Heedfulness

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Be careful," Serge admonished. "It's dumb out there.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and

Better a thousand times careful than once dead.

Imam Mawl?d then says that one should hasten "to fulfill [God's] command" and be "wary of the subtle encroachment of bad manners," namely, faults that one is unaware of. A hadith states, "One of you will say a word and give it no consideration, though it will drag the person [who uttered it] through Hellfire for 70 years.

One of the cures for heedlessness is keeping good and sincere company. It is recognized in virtually all traditions and cultures that the company one keeps has inroads to one's heart and morality. When surrounded by people who are sincere and trustworthy, one only benefits from them. Even when a person errs, good companions remind him and set him right.

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

known that he had to be careful

Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking.

Let the buyer beware.

such calls for caution

sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

If you're not nervous, you're not paying attention.

Don't be so poor to the point that you can't afford to pay attention.