170 Watchful Quotes

Following is our list of watchful quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what is freedom.

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Famous Watchful Quotes

It is always good to be careful or vigilant. — Didier Deschamps

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts — Buddha

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. — Thomas Jefferson

A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven. — James Madison

Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart. — Rumi

Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively. — Kano Jigoro

To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present. — Eckhart Tolle

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. — E. B. White

Watch your thoughts, they become words. — Lao Tzu

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you. — Grace Coddington

The cautious seldom err. — Confucius

Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy. — Yiddish Proverbs

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. — Hippocrates

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. - Roald Dahl

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone. — Confucius

Short Watchful Quotes

  • Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. — Samuel Levenson
  • I could either watch it happen or be part of it. — Elon Musk
  • If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. — J. K. Rowling
  • I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop. — Alfred Eisenstaedt
  • If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. — Jeannette Walls
  • It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream. — Bernard Williams
  • Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. — Nelson Mandela
  • Keep working even when no one is watching. — Alex Morgan
  • Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. — Ernest Hemingway
  • ...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting. — Augusten Burroughs

Watchful Image Quotes

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it. - Mehmet Murat Ildan quote

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. - Michael Jackson quote

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. — Michael Jackson

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. - C. S. Lewis quote

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis

Never trust a dog to watch your food. - Saint Patrick quote

Never trust a dog to watch your food. — Saint Patrick

I heard Rolex makes nice watches. - Brendan Gallagher quote

I heard Rolex makes nice watches. — Brendan Gallagher

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. - Kathrine Switzer quote

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form. - Eckhart Tolle quote

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form. — Eckhart Tolle

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. - Jim Rohn quote

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. — Jim Rohn

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. - Jean-Luc Godard quote

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. — Jean-Luc Godard

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. - Mark Twain quote

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. — Mark Twain

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers quote

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. — Will Rogers

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching. - Ray Lewis quote

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching. — Ray Lewis

Watch out where the Huskies go
And don't you eat that yellow snow - Frank Zappa quote

Watch out where the Huskies go And don't you eat that yellow snow — Frank Zappa

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. - Albert Camus quote

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. — Albert Camus

Do you wanna be really really awesome? Just keep watching me. - The Miz quote

Do you wanna be really really awesome? Just keep watching me. — The Miz

Always wear a smile because you never know who is watching. - Gracie Gold quote

Always wear a smile because you never know who is watching. — Gracie Gold

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working. - Francis of Assisi quote

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working. — Francis of Assisi

Watchful quote The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anyt
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Watchful Eye Quotes

Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by. — Tyler Kent

One day your life will flash before your eyes, make sure it's worth watching. - Gerard Way

One day your life will flash before your eyes, make sure it's worth watching. — Gerard Way

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl

Watchful quote Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.

Always watch your back - when I was fourteen I got a tattoo of an eye on the back of my neck, so I could say I was always watchin' my back. — Gucci Mane

If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars. — Neil Gaiman

Watchful quote One day you life will flash before your eyes, make sure it's worth watching.
One day you life will flash before your eyes, make sure it's worth watching.

The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes. — Danica McKellar

I think so,” she [Claire] said. “Just watch your back, okay?” “Nah, Michael’s got mine.” He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes. “I’ve got yours. — Rachel Caine

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence. — Antonio Machado

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see. — Zora Neale Hurston

What Is Freedom Quotes

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone. — St. Catherine of Siena

If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland. — Chandra Shekhar Azad

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. — Jim Morrison

Watchful quote People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad. — Sonny Barger

Watchful quote If you love someone, be brave to tell them, otherwise, be brave enough to watch them be loved by som
If you love someone, be brave to tell them, otherwise, be brave enough to watch them be loved by someone else.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought — Abraham Lincoln

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism. — Noam Chomsky

Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness. - Frank Tyger

Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness. — Frank Tyger

What Are Wise Quotes

You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today! — Paul Washer

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. - Taylor Swift

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. — Taylor Swift

Watchful quote Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.
Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.

The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them. — Lao Tzu

No matter what we eat, how much we exercise, how resilient our genes are, how skinny or young or wise we are—none of it will matter unless we’re breathing correctly. That’s what these researchers discovered. The missing pillar in health is breath. It all starts there. — James Nestor

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. — Pearl S. Buck

Watchful quote And we'll watch them fall, they stand in the way of love, and we will smoke them all.
And we'll watch them fall, they stand in the way of love, and we will smoke them all.

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession. — Lao Tzu

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. — Isaac Newton

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. — Epictetus

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. — Louis L'Amour

Watch Me Quotes

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley

I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me. — Zachary Levi

If you don't like it, don't follow me, don't watch me, cause I'm not going anywhere. — Gigi Hadid

Watchful quote Watch you thoughts, for they become words. Watch you words, for they become actions. Watch your acti
Watch you thoughts, for they become words. Watch you words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for the become you character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that. And I think I am fine.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. — Linda Hogan

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. — Woody Allen

I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter better. I thought they had more variety to them, they had more romantic comedies and things that appealed to me more. — Debbie Reynolds

Watchful quote Take me as i am, Or watch me as i go.
Take me as i am, Or watch me as i go.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. — Clarence Buddinton Kelland

You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile — Bobby Heenan

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game — Lou Holtz

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done. - Jackie Robinson

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done. — Jackie Robinson

Watch And Learn Quotes

I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow. — Colin Powell

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Watchful quote One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.

Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change. — Anita Moorjani

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine. — Craig Groeschel

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. — Sylvester Stallone

Watchful quote Watch what the idiots are doing, and do the opposite.
Watch what the idiots are doing, and do the opposite.

Our children are watching us all the time. They learn much more by what they see than what they hear. Moral science is never learnt from books, but from watching those who live around us. The world will follow your example and not your advice. — Mahatria Ra

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. — Doris Brown Heritage

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity. — Donald Trump

You can only watch training for so long. At a certain point you need to dive in the water. You need to step in the ring and get punched in the face. — Alex Hormozi

Watching Tv Quotes

I like to turn on the TV and watch whatever's on. Nick Kroll does that a lot. He doesn't watch important shows. He'll just turn on a documentary on Mia Hamm and watch it for an hour. Whatever's on, we watch. — John Mulaney

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching. — Hedy Lamarr

When we film the TV show, it's with a hidden camera so we don't get to see how fans react to what we are doing and when fans watch it at home. — James Murray

Awww, I was so shy about watching my own work broadcast on TV. — Akira Toriyama

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music. — Neil Young

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me. — Angelina Jolie

I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia. — Craig Kielburger

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV. — Michio Kaku

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. — Andy Warhol

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. — Lily Tomlin

God Watches Quotes

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. — Saint Peter

Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine? — Charles Stanley

No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don't forget to dare to dream with God. You don't have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does. — Lysa TerKeurst

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder. — Hartley Coleridge

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset. - Frank Peretti

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset. — Frank Peretti

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll

Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see. — David Macbeth Moir

The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure. — G. Campbell Morgan

In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one. — Ann Weems

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. — Cormac McCarthy

Eyes Watching Quotes

Every day we should stand in awe of Him, as He is with us, and do what is pleasing before Him. If we are unable now to perceive Him with our physical eyes, we can, if we are watchful, see Him continuously with the eyes of our understanding and not just see Him, but reap great benefits from Him. — Gregory Palamas

Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says. — Robert Kiyosaki

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy. — Alfred A. Montapert

Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression — Harun Yahya

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word. — Franz Kafka

Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the eerie sound of the jungle … with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland. — Walt Disney

Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look. — Marie Winn

Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself — Jon Lajoie

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. — Robert Smith

In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves. — Joseph Campbell

Watching Television Quotes

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet. — Philo Farnsworth

Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

I would watch 'Punk'd' or 'Candid Camera' - I love the shows, but also I would feel bad about the people that were getting pranked. — James Murray

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference. — Jackie Kennedy

I watched Bill O'Reilly for years. — Tucker Carlson

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. — Francis Ford Coppola

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. — Bill Gates

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time. — Xi Jinping

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television. — Lewis Thomas

Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe. — Bill Bryson

Watches Quotes

Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there. — DJ Khaled

If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find. — Franz Kafka

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Lao Tzu

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. — Carl Rogers

You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life. — Brendon Urie

Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

When you are a member of an organization, life isn't only about you. As part of a circle of people who depend on one another, you watch one another's back and remain loyal to the concept of brotherhood. — Sonny Barger

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. — Albert Einstein

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun. — James Lafferty

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More Watchful Quotes

For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new. — Alexander Fleming

One of the weaknesses of Indian industry is that in many areas.. like consumer goods.. it is very fragmented. Individually, the companies might not be able to survive. What is needed is a consortium of like companies in one industry, presenting a strong front to the multinationals. The Swiss watch industry did this. — Ratan Tata

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