Quotes About Guarding

I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will.

Shield your heart from being stabbed, by giving it to no one.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

God's idea of guarding his heart is to guard himself against diminishing love. He guards his love. Now if that doesn't become revolutionary I am not saying it right.

Don't settle for one-night stands in the arms of a stranger. Be obsessed with your wedding date. Guard against forgetfulness. Be intolerant of memory lapses. Write yourself notes. Memorize verses. Do whatever you need to do to remember. " Aim at what is in heaven. Think only about the things in heaven" (Colossians 3:1–2).You are engaged to royalty, and your Prince is coming to take you home.

I won't let it happen again. I protect what's mine.

Sometimes, the things we do to protect ourselves turn on us and hurt us. They become self-destructive.

Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well.

If you collect a fat flock, you don't leave it grazing beside a wolf's den.

Put a cat to guard the sheep and the wolves would eat well.

I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day. 2 Timothy 1:12

The biggest thing to realize when you're guarding great players is, look, they're going to score - it's hard to guard anyone one-on-one, straight-up and have them be shut out. You just want to try to make them work for their possessions.

I continued to protect him with my silence.

A frame is a psychological model you build for yourself to organize and carry out a strategy to attain a goal; to move from spot A to spot B while guarding against detours and resistance."

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Rejection is protection.

Therefore, it is necessary to guard our heart and our external senses from indecent spectacles: each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.

I love the game now, I like where it's at. I like where it's going. A lot of people say, 'Well, they don't have to guard, you can't touch anybody.' Well, yeah, that makes a difference because you can show everybody your skills.

Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Offensively and defensively, I think I probably do a lot better in guarding people in transition and shooting the ball in transition.

The Western poet Rainer Maria Rilke has said that our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.12

Rainer Maria Rilke has said that our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.