Quotes About Watchfulness

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

Atty's eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!

Keeping the serpent out of our gardens is the primary assignment of watchmen.

Be present as the watcher of your mind- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations

Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration.

A true watchdog sleeps with all his senses or the very edge of wakefulness. And when he wakens, he does not waken as do we humans;—yawningly, dazedly, drunk with slumber. At one moment he is sound asleep. At the next he is broad awake; with every faculty alert.

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Galatians 6:1 ESV

The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.

Don't be lulled into complacency.

Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.

I went out the side door. Looked around. Circled the building. Nothing. I took a deep breath and walked to the road, shoulders up, gaze forward, tensing for the first shout. Or the first shot.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Being observant of your surroundings & practicing situational awareness at all times is not being paranoid; it's being cautious.

And what are your duties at the theater?" "To catch things that are falling through midair, right before they hit the ground and shatter.

I did not do those things; I only watched, watched myself act, react.

I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.

The eye being a tender part, and soonest hurt, how watchful is man by nature over that, that it take no hurt. So the heart, being a tender thing, let us preserve it by all watchfulness to keep blows from off it. It is a terrible thing to keep a wound of some great sin upon the conscience, for it makes a way for a new breach; because when the conscience once begins to be hardened with some great sin, then there is no stop, but we run on to commit sin with all greediness. 9.

I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

Waiting doesn't look like much, but it is something very important. Waiting is passive hunting.

Pike noticed details. The Marines had trained him to maintain situational awareness

The cookie maker needs someone to look out for him.

Sometimes I get so scared. Fear is a form of alertness.