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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• But who guards the guardians?

  Juvenal

  Security

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

  Ambrose

  Angel, Praying, Should

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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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• 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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• Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

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

  Vicente Fox

  Owners

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• To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict­ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Integrity, Lying

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Disappointment, Events, Deities

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.42

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• A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Men, Doe

  Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2”, p.175, Hackett Publishing

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• I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dad, Believe, Warrior

  "‘The View’ pays tribute to Patrick Swayze", www.today.com. September 15, 2009.

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• We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Community, Chance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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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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