Quotes About Vigilance

Wake up people, you are sleeping your life away!

Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything.

Guard your heart in your spirit.

Vigilance enables wisdom and is the key to freewill

Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.

If you want peace, prepare for war.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought...

And it's the first night I feel like someone might be watching me.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

God gave him a work to do. He commissioned him to be a watchman on the walls.

Taking things for granted is a good way to get yourself killed. – Scourge

The devil is after our "gardens," too—our families, homes, marriages, churches, cities, etc. Our responsibility as watchmen is to keep the devil out

The first responsibility of watchmen is to keep the serpent out of their God-given gardens.

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

You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

All creativity comes out of inner spaciousness. Once the creation has happened and something has come into form, you have to be vigilant so that the notion of me or mine does not arise. If you take credit for what you accomplished, the ego has returned, and the spaciousness has become obscured.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

I was, indeed, aware that a jealous, ever-waking vigilance, to guard the treasure of our liberty, not only from invasion, but from decay and corruption, was our best wisdom and our first duty.

Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones." T. Roosevelt

be apprehensive of delations, which, as a subject, I have always condemned, and, as a prince, will severely punish.

A perpetual stream of strangers and provincials flowed into the capacious bosom of Rome. Whatever was strange or odious, whoever was guilty or suspected, might hope, in the obscurity of that immense capital, to elude the vigilance of the law. In such a various conflux of nations, every teacher, either of truth or of falsehood, every founder, whether of a virtuous or a criminal association, might easily multiply his disciples or accomplices.

The violent take it by force" is how the King James Version puts it (Matt. 11:12). That is the way the kingdom of God advances. With persecution outside, Satan fighting us through temptations, and our own lusts within, every disciple of Christ is in a battle, one that demands spiritual strength and ongoing vigilance.

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.