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Quotes About Watchfulness

Don't sit with your back to any doors.
~ Frank Herbert
How many times must I tell that lad never to settle himself with his back to a door?
~ Frank Herbert
Father Damien maintained a neutral, kind, meditative watchfulness that had in it no hint of impatience.
~ Louise Erdrich
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one's eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket
~ Andrew Carnegie
since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.
~ John Calvin
I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease.
~ John Donne
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.
~ Rajneesh
There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not find them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers
~ Anthony Stevens
There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not fine them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate it is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers
~ Anthony Stevens
A person who preaches often people to enjoy life and be happy should be watched closely & correctly of the ways and means that s/he employs to make the happiness for oneself only.
~ Anuj Somany
Though I had read the story many times before, I never realized until that moment that shepherds carefully keep track of their flocks by constantly counting, continually checking.
~ Margaret Feinberg
I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.
~ Anna Laetitia Waring
Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
~ Gwen Ifill
Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
~ J. C. Ryle
I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.
~ Robert Pattinson
We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ." ? Seraphim Rose
~ Seraphim Rose
I'm protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Never take your eyes off them," Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. "Didn't MacNeil ever tell you that?
~ John Flanagan
Most of our time is spent waiting. A Ranger's best asset is patience.
~ John Flanagan
There is a reason God has alerted us to "look up" for the coming of the Lord.
~ John Hagee
Hence the duty of the good citizen who is free from the responsibility of Government is to be a watchdog upon it, lest Government impair the fundamental objects which it exists to serve. It is a necessary evil, thus requiring constant watchfulness and check.
~ B.H. Liddell Hart
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
~ Publilius Syrus
There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
~ Ted Knight