Vigilance Quotes - Page 2

• Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

  Thucydides

  Want, Three, Failing

  "The History of the Peloponnesian War".

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• There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Arms, Limitless

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• A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Toil, Habit

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• Those who have no mental vigilance,
  Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate,
  With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug,
  Their learning will not settle in their memories.

  Shantideva

  Wisdom, Memories, Teaching

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• Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

  Libba Bray

  Life, Fire, Feds

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Doubt, Dangerous

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 53, 1799.

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

  A. B. Simpson

  Lying, Heart, Safe

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Freedom

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• Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

  Thomas Sowell

  Maturity, Imperfection, Price Of Freedom

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• Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be.

  Dana Gould

  Mines, Eternal

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• Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

  Austin Phelps

  Inspirational, Persistence, Opportunity

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• The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Barbecue, Eternal, Eternal Vigilance

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• The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Liberty, Prohibition

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• It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

  John Philpot Curran

  Fate, Men, Rights

  Speech on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, 10 July 1790. Usually quoted as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," which has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but no one has ever found this in his writings. Atkinson's Casket, Sept. 1833, has "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." See Andrew Jackson 5

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• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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• Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Life, Success, Winning

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• Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Ocean, Dedication

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• The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Price Of Freedom, Stills, Eternal

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• That government is best which governs least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessing, Pay The Price, Addiction

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.436

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• Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Revolution, Republican

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.352

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• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.

  Wendell Phillips

  Hands, Yesterday, People

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• I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mistake, Opportunity, Chess

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Suffering, Mountain

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• The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.

  Thomas Cole

  Understanding, Discrimination, Tenacity

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