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Quotes About Direction

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.
~ Alan Cohen
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
~ Ayn Rand
Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
~ Rick Warren
Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.
~ Robin Sharma
If you don't act on life, life will act on you
~ Robin Sharma
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
~ Sam Levenson
Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
~ Tony Robbins
If you have life, you have purpose.
~ Caroline Myss
Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.
~ Daniel Burrus
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.
~ Michael Josephson
Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.
~ Nikita Koloff
Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.
~ Pythagoras
What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction
~ Oprah Winfrey
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
~ Rick Warren
There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.
~ Marcus Sedgwick
To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.
~ Mardy Grothe
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.
~ Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri