Quotes About Vigilance

You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

We never know when or where harm may strike but, we can take proactive steps to protect ourselves.

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

I have to play hard and at the end of the day I still have to strive to protect myself and so does everybody in the league.

With any opponent there's always a challenge and something to watch for.

There are so many X-factors going on in the ring. You have to protect your opponent. You have to be conscious of what your opponent is going through and make sure they're safe.

I find it quite amusing that it's feasible that your opponents can have somebody watching you.

This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.

I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.

When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.