Guardian Quotes

• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

  Mother Teresa

  Travel, Memorable, Angel

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• You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders.

  Glenn Beck

  Leader, Needs, Revolutionary

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• But who guards the guardians?

  Juvenal

  Security

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• The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

  James Madison

  Education, Freedom, Inspirational Life

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Philosophical, Intriguing

  "On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 5, 55 BCE.

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• Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

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• We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

  Ambrose

  Angel, Praying, Should

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• In joy and sorrow all are equal,
  Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself.

  Shantideva

  Joy, Sorrow, Equal

  Shantideva, Padmakara Translation Group (2008). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.204, Shambhala Publications

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• There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

  Aeschylus

  Heart, Ought

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

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• We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

  Paul Tsongas

  Children, Fundamentals, Legacy

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• One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.

  Richard Rohr

  Angel, Doors, Bridges

  "Life on the Edge: Understanding the Prophetic Position" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2011.

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• If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.

  Natalie

  Real, Voice, Mind

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• I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. I am the Guardian. The Soulless Keeper. Neither Human, nor Apollite, I exist beyond the realm of the Living, beyond the realm of the Dead. I am the Dark-Hunter. And I am Eternal…unless I find that one pure heart who will never betray me. The one whose faith and courage can return my soul to me and bring me back into the light. (Dark-Hunter Creed)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Dark, Night

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• Be the best Guardian you can be. Save lots of people. And every time you save someone, think of me.” -Maddy

  Scott Speer

  Thinking, People, Being The Best

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• Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

  Vaclav Havel

  Suicide, Hero, Suicidal

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

  Owen Feltham

  Angel, Men, Quitting

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• If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Real, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.359, Jaico Publishing House

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• Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Community, Individuality, Ethics

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1292, eBookIt.com

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• In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

  Walter Scott

  Listening, Mood, Strands

  Sir Walter Scott (1849). “Select Poetical Works: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake and Rokeby”

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• ... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

  Plato

  Opportunity, Government, Law

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• When you are lonely or frightened, talk to your guardian angel. You can do it out loud or inside your head, your angel can hear you. Ask your angel to be near you, to put his or her hand on your shoulder, to give you courage and protect you.

  Joan Anderson

  Inspiring, Lonely, Angel

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• Your guardian angel loves you and you are precious to them - you are the most important person in the world to them and, they have to do everything they can for you.

  Lorna Byrne

  Love You, Angel, Important

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• I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

  Vicente Fox

  Owners

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• The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

  Noah Webster

  Insecure, Law, Sole

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.16

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