Quotes About Protection

Reputation is a treasure to be carefully collected and hoarded. Especially when you are first establishing it, you must protect it strictly, anticipating all attacks on it. Once it is solid, do not let yourself get angry or defensive at the slanderous comments of your enemies—that reveals insecurity, not confidence in your reputation. Take the high road instead, and never appear desperate in your self-defense.

As Winston Churchill said, "Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The Black Sheep. The herd shuns the black sheep, uncertain whether or not it belongs with them. So it straggles behind, or wanders away from the herd, where it is cornered by wolves and promptly devoured. Stay with the herd—there is safety in numbers. Keep your differences in your thoughts and not in your fleece.

May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

He did not think anyone needed to look after Nynaeve; around Nynaeve, to his mind, other people needed someone to look after them.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.

Thieves are always the most careful of their purses.

All of you, fare well, and may you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand.

They have no Aes Sedai touching the True Source to protect them. Blacksmith, perhaps the walls have weakened enough for the Dark One himself to touch events. Not with a free hand, or we'd be done already, but maybe tiny shiftings in the threads. A chance turning of one corner instead of another, a chance meeting, a chance word, or what seems like chance, and they could be so far under the Shadow not even Moiraine could bring them back.

The Warder seldom let himself get far from the Aes Sedai's side.

And so he did. He wished he could protect them better, but he would simply have to carry that burden. The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him.

Even Warders would break if she loosed the lightnings on them, and balefire, and broke the ground under their feet. Balefire? she wondered. But it would also do no good if she broke Tar Valon's power to save Rand. She had to save both.

easier to be brave, he discovered, when someone needed your protection.

he had grown up in the unspoken certainty that a man would put himself at risk to protect a woman as far she allowed; whether he liked her or even knew her was beside the point.

If you ask the lion to protect you from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

I can't keep you; the only way I can protect you is to send you away. "I am yours, always and forever.

he had been raised to believe it was a man's place to die if necessary before a woman had to.

was easier to be brave, he discovered, when someone needed your protection.

We might as well be children—babes—facing our mother, and this Mother can do far worse than beat us.

It was easier to be brave, he discovered, when someone needed your protection