Quotes About Vigilance

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose "the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere"?

You are not prepared.

You don't say much," she said, "and you're careful about what you do say. That is good. Stay that way. It will keep you alive.

Remember, the surest way to lose your rights is to take them for granted.

in almost no instance can artificial-rational systems be built and left alone. They require continued attention, rebuilding, and repair. Eternal vigilance is the price of artificial complexity." He noted too, that in a technological age we should ask not who governs, but what governs: `government becomes the business of recognising what is necessary and efficient for the continued functioning and elaboration of large-scale systems and the rational implementation of their manifest requirements.

Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and China depended on constant vigilance over, and maintenance and repair of, complex irrigation systems. It was argued that this required a huge all-powerful state: these ancient 'hydraulic societies' were necessarily not democratic.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

admonition: "Fear your enemy once, fear your friend a thousand times.

Two ways to increase your anticipation time are looking farther ahead and reducing speed in busy situations.

it's not only a matter of controlling the motorcycle you're riding but also controlling the situation around you.

Rider training instructors often suggest that a rider should be looking twelve seconds ahead, or the distance he or she will be covering over the next twelve seconds. That doesn't mean you should be focused only on what's happening at a point twelve seconds ahead. Instead, you should focus on everything that's going on within that twelve-second zone.

El que vigila al pueblo acaba siendo vigilado por el pueblo. Hay una fundamental lógica democrática en ello»

but the Gospels reveal Jesus, the manifestation of the blessed God over all as minute in His care of all. He exercises a vigilance more constant, complete, and comprehensive, every hour and every minute, over each of His people than their utmost selflove could ever attain. His tender love is more exquisite than a mother's heart can feel.

If you're running around on bald tires, it doesn't take a special nail.

The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

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

Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack