Quotes About Direction

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.

Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it

Follow the quiet voice within you that is telling you where to go.

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful. It by no means consists 22 SUCCESS in rushing prematurely to a showy feat that shall catch the eye and satisfy spectators. It is enough if you work in the right direction.

El viaje menos complicado del mejor barco velero, está compuesto de un conjunto de zigzags. Pero si miras la línea de su trayectoria desde una distancia lo suficientemente lejana, notarás que, en general, siempre se ha mantenido en la dirección dominante del destino. Tu acción genuina se explicará por sí misma, y explicará tus otras acciones genuinas.

Inevitably is an excellent word—inevitably means you're on a train, and the train is going one way, and you're at the front of the train running as fast as you can toward the back of the train, in the opposite direction from where the train is headed. But it doesn't matter, because when the train gets to the station, you get there too. That's inevitably. That's my life.

Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.

A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

Without Christ not one step," David Livingstone declared, "with Him anywhere.

Faith is a thing of the mind. If you do not believe that God is in control and has formed you for a purpose, then you will flounder on the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness.

If you do not believe that God is in control and has formed you for a purpose, then you will flounder on the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness.

Purpose is to life what the skeleton is to the body. The muscle may have strength, but it needs support and attachment.

All walls are not barriers. They may be there for a purpose.

I am not a fisherman, but the other day I read some simple rules for fishing. One was this: Be sure your face is toward the light! The skillful fisherman will always see that the sun shines upon his face and that his shadow falls behind him. He who turns his back to the sun and lets his shadow darken the stream has said good-bye to all the trout. That

Dac? senzualul nu ar fi educat ?i dirijat de spiritual, s-ar reduce invariabil la fizic, ?i nimic mai mult.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore

We all do what we do.

Meet him in the air?" Tom snorted, "good grief, talk about horrible directions to nowhere.

If anything is taught here, it is simply the charting of the life of someone who started out to somewhere—and went.