Top 185 Vigilance Quotes & Sayings

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

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 if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

The price of peace is eternal vigilance

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

The American people and our allies around the world can rely on CIA's vigilance, excellence, and determination to proudly serve.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

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

The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.

The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity.

Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

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

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

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

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

American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs. Whoever relaxes vigilance will disarm himself politically and land himself in a passive position.

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

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

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

The hardship, the fighting against vigilance should stop, and terrorism should be fought decisively.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.

Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

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.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

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

... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Eternal vigilance is the price of sexual confidence.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

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

The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

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

Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'