Vigilance Quotes

113 Vigilance quotes by 102 unique authors

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. — George Orwell
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. — Wendell Phillips
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and… — Haile Selassie
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. — Antonio Tabucchi
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. — Desmond Tutu
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's… — Venus Williams
And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we… — Italo Calvino
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy,… — William Jennings Bryan
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
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and… — Gregory Maguire
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we… — Julia Cameron
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… — Carl Sagan
He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for… — J M Coetzee
I keep my eyes on the sea, waiting to be rocketed into it on a wave of fire. I'll be ready for it to happen… — Tina Fey
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space,… — Catherynne M. Valente
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves… — Benjamin Franklin
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the… — Daniel Kahneman
... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and… — Anna Akhmatova
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government. — Eleanor Roosevelt
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and… — Winston Churchill
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking… — Toni Morrison

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