Vigilance Quotes

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.”
― Peter Ellis

“If we want to avoid becoming overly paranoid while still maintaining a healthy level of vigilance, we must balance trust and caution without letting fear dominate our interactions with others or living merely on assumptions or stereotypes. (“Could the milkman be the devil?)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You have to always be vigilant and make sure you’re ready to get on the bandwagon as a need for any new change arises.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Ukraine is truly resisting tyranny...
As the Russian forces get closer to Poland, many Ukrainians go--not further west from the border--but back into Ukraine...don't think it couldn't happen here. Vigilance has been required of us, but nothing like the vigilance that has been required of the Ukrainian people.
It may yet be.”
― Shellen Lubin

“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to the light, always pursuing vermin and never hunting noble game.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

“Being a living trans person means vigilance. For a non-passing trans person, there is no safe space. It is not who we are kissing, but our very heights, our voices, and the size of our hands that catalyze hatred and violence. Forget activism; simply negotiating one’s world every day, constantly judging, adjusting, scanning one’s surroundings, and changing clothes to go from one role to another can be overwhelming.

Add to that cases of family disownment, poverty, homelessness, HIV. When a recent study of transgender youth reports that half their sample had entertained thoughts of suicide, and a quarter of them had made at least one attempt, I am not surprised.”
― Ryka Aoki

“The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.”
― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

“A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it does seem to me that notwithstanding all these social agencies and activities there is not that vigilance which should be exercised in the preservation of our rights.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

“Drawing on the words of Coretta Scott King, I reminded the audience that freedom must be fought for and won by every generation. "It is the very nature of this fight for civil rights and justice and equality that whatever gains we make, they will not be permanent. So we must be vigilant, " I said.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“The ladders of life that we scale merrily
Move mysteriously around
So that when you think you're climbing up, man
In fact you're climbing down”
― Nick Cave, And No More Shall We Part

“Wisdom from Top Butler: Guard yourself at all times but don't let anyone lead you to live a guarded life that is all.”
― Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

“You must stay vigilant … You must take care of yourselves and not rely on the whims of great men to decide your destiny, for that is when you will be deceived—not with a threat with a treat.”
― Benjamin Ellefson, The Land without Color

“The next customer in line was a white woman who had purchased a set of baby’s pajamas for her pregnant sister.

“Men,” the customer said. “Who can understand the way their minds work?”

Mother knew what the lady was talking about, but she couldn’t laugh at a black man with her, even though she was only laughing at him for being a man.”
― Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow

“He was terrifically disciplined - he was in everything - and discipline, like vigilance, is a near-impossible quality to get someone to abandon.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“When the enemy presents an opportunity, speedily take advantage of it. Anticipate him in seizing something he values and move in accordance with a date secretly fixed. The doctrine of war is to follow the enemy situation in order to decide on battle. Therefore at first be shy as a maiden. When the enemy gives you an opening be swift as a hare and he will be unable to withstand you.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“While it’s true the city’s gotten a lot safer, you still gotta watch out for the wackadoos. You always will.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“If you have weathered even the fiercest storms in the past, still be vigilant because the euphoria of victory is the source of many defeats!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Civilization thrives in vigilance -- not complacency.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“To open the gateway of life, shut your mouth.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“She [Haniya Daoud] seemed tired, but also calm. 'It's good to be reminded now and then that such things exist.'

'What things?'

'Beauty. Peace.' She held his eyes. 'Goodness. But they're fragile and can so easily disappear, unless people are willing to do what's necessary to defend them.'

'I'm not sure that goodness is all that fragile,' said Gamache.

...'If not fragile, it's mercurial,' said Haniya. 'Good. Evil. Cruelty and kindness. Guilt and innocence. An act cam be all those things at once, depending on your perspective. It's so easy to delude ourselves, wouldn't you say, Chief Inspector?'

'Into believing killing one person to save millions is an act of moral courage?'

'I don't think that's a delusion.'

'And if you kill the wrong person?”
― Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds

“I decided to make the seafood chowder I first ate twenty years ago in the English Market in Cork, Ireland---or at least my own version of that smoky, tomato-based soup with cod, scallops, clams, and shrimp; sometimes (in Ireland), it had periwinkles (sea snails) and enough smoked haddock to give it a wonderful campfire tang. Of course, I had to skip the periwinkles and for the smokiness I made do with frozen finnan haddie. I'd worked on the recipe over the years, cranking the flavors so that when I finally went back to the English Market a couple of years ago, their chowder was so bland and watery that Jack didn't believe it was the same soup I made at home. It was possible that the Irish cook was having a bad day, or someone was trying to stretch the last bit of a used-up batch, or they'd made the recipe from memory for so long, it had ceased being itself---a chef at a good restaurant here in Los Angeles once told me that vigilance is the key to consistency, and that if she or a trusted supervisor didn't keep an eye on the plates as they came out of the kitchen, a dish could become unrecognizable within hours.”
― Michelle Huneven, Search

“I realised that ignorance is not a lack of information but a lack of vigilance and dedication in daily life.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Some say you must watch the quietest person in the room! I say even the loudest can be deadly because magician’s use their words, hand gestures, and stage presence as a distraction! Remain vigilant at all times especially while enjoying foolish grandiose entertainment!”
― Constance Delores Burrell, Kyng Supa Nova’s Adventures: オペレーション・COVID-19 家族と一緒なら、全てを乗り越えられる。

“I left a lifetime of vigilance piled on the ground like a forgotten coat.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Marching into Germany, Americans had no intention of remaining; they had counted on keeping occupation armies on German soil no more than two years. But once involved in Central Europe, and understanding Soviet motives and ambitions, the U.S. government did not dare depart. Gradually, American officialdom began to accept the fact that some problems, like that of Germany, defied any quick solution, and that the price of continued security or success had to be eternal vigilance.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This kind of peace