Quotes About Direction

I wonder if people look at where their hard work is taking them. What does the future hold?

what's hard is the mental fortitude to direct money to the correct use.

I realized that I would wind up like him if I hung around him much longer.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed;

life still called to her with many insistent voices.

Many people strategize themselves into the wrong businesses.

Pea Eye loped up and unfolded himself in the direction of the ground. Your getting off a horse reminds me of an old crane landing in a mud puddle, Augustus said.

Maybe, Gus said. We've had a lot of practice, going on expeditions for nothing. That's how it mostly turned out. You ride awhile in one direction and then you turn around and ride back.

Retreat, hell! We're just attacking in the opposite direction! - U.S. Marine Corps commander,  Changjin Reservoir, Korea

widdershins

What happened the day I met your father,' she said, 'is that I learned you ave to choose. For better or for worse. You have to choose what your life is going to look like.

You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now?

Gotta pick a piece of wood," I said. "It all starts with picking a good piece of wood. If that's no good, you have nowhere good to go." "How

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

It beats me," he said, "why they call a south wind a norther, and how a wind from the south can be so tarnation cold. I never saw anything like it. Down here in this country, the north end of a south wind is the coldest wind I ever heard of.

horses, she did as asked. But when they followed

Dolph didn't ask for your opinion unless he was prepared to act upon it. He was a good boss.

Lead me, really lead me, or get the hell out of my way! -Anita Blake

It wasn't the big decisions that set the course of one's life; it was the slow accretion of all the little ones.

If you don't like the teaching and you don't like the research – why are you doing this?" "Because it's what I thought I wanted six years ago." … Behind him, I could see my bookshelves, crammed with monographs and reference works, all the effluvia of the last six years. "If I don't do this, what do I do?"(437-438)

These days any planned thing looked good to me. What heaven to have your work cut out for you, to be part of the Big Picture -- a picture you did not have to paint yourself.

Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.

Trying to figure out what you want to do, who you want to be, is messy as hell; the best anyone can hope for is to figure out the next step.