Quotes About Watchfulness

Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan.

Take heed of an ox before. an ass behind, and a MONK on all sides

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

When something bad happens, you're bound to be doubly careful.

Be on the lookout for Saban Brands on a constant basis.

If you hold close to nature, to what is simple in it, to the small things people hardly see and which all of a sudden can become great and immeasurable; if you have this love for what is slight, and quite unassumingly, as a servant, seek to win the confidence of what seems poor – then everything will grow easier, more unified and somehow more conciliatory, not perhaps in the intellect, which, amazed, remains a step behind, but in your deepest consciousness, watchfulness and knowledge.

One thing you need to remember and understand is that you cannot leave the mind alone. It needs to be watched constantly. If you do not look after your garden it will overgrow with weeds. If you do not watch your mind, defilements will grow and multiply. The mind does not belong to you, but you are responsible for it.

External vigilance is the price of liberty.

But I'm not letting this sweet thing out of my sight until . . ." She didn't finish,

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I have learnt this over time, that Peter Jones, you've gotta watch him.

My head been on a swivel before I was rapping. So, do my head not supposed to be on the swivel? If you've been like this your whole life, do it stop because you got money now? Do it stop because everybody and their momma looking at you now?

It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the contrary, the life and character of its justices should be the objects of constant watchfulness by all, and its judgments subject to the freest criticism.

It's not his step, it's the back of his lap he ought to watch, I said.

Sed quis custdiet ipss custds? (Juvenal Sat. 6.347–48:

If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.

slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

The price of peace is eternal vigilance

Children are great observers.

Children observe everything with caution.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.

And therefore, if ever, Christian, thou hadst need to watch, then is the time—when comforts abound, and God dandles thee most on the knee of his love—when his face shines with clearest manifestations; lest this sin of pride, as a thief in the candle, should swale[43] out thy joy.