Quotes About Direction

The directional nature of happiness is one reason it's a good idea to have a sport or hobby that leaves you plenty of room to improve every year. Tennis

The key to career advancement is appearing valuable despite all hard evidence to the contrary. … If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there.

People are more influenced by the direction of things than the current state.

Ethics are important because they give direction to people and societies who have some sense that they cannot flourish without being moral.

She was nothing in particular. But at least she had a purpose.

When we have lost ourselves, we have lost everything.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

Goats, to the left with you!' the Judge one day will ordain. 'And you, little sheep, stand quietly here on my right!' - Fair enough; but it is to be hoped he will say one thing more, namely: 'As for you, stand right opposite me, you men of sense!

Los hombres, como los niños, caminando a tientas sobre la tierra, ignorando de dónde vienen y adónde van, son poco menos que autómatas y, exactamente como los niños, se dejan gobernar con juguetes, confites y azotes.

Çocuklar ne istediklerini bilmezler. Bütün e?itimciler bu konuda ayn? dü?üncede. Ama yeti?kinler de bu dünyada çocuklar gibi sendeleye sendeleye dola??r, Onlar gibi nereden gelip nereye gittiklerini bilmezler. Gerçek ülkülere do?ru ko?maz, bisküviler ve çöreklerle avunurlar. Kimse buna inanmak istemez ama bence bunun kadar aç?k bir ?ey yoktur.

Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, from sheer doing, do nothing, or, perhaps, just what they would have avoided.

Evet Wilhelm, bazen bir an için kalk?p gitme, ba?lar? koparma cesareti buluyorum kendimde, ke?ke nereye gidece?imi bilsem! heralde giderdim.

Para alcanzar todos los deseos, mira hacia allá, mira la luz.

Ik heb wel eens zo'n ogenblik van steigerende, bevrijdende moed, maar dan -- als ik maar wist waar naartoe -- dan ging ik wel.

Daß die Kinder nicht wissen, warum sie wollen, darin sind alle hochgelehrten Schul- und Hofmeister einig; daß aber auch Erwachsene gleich Kindern auf diesem Erdboden herumtaumeln und wie jene nicht wissen, woher sie kommen und wohin sie gehen, ebensowenig nach wahren Zwecken handeln, ebenso durch Biskuit und Kuchen und Birkenreiser regiert werden: das will niemand gern glauben, und mich dünkt, man kann es mit Händen greifen.

Our errors were endured because we found no beaten path; but from him who comes later into the world more is required; he must not be seeking and blundering, but should use the instructions of the old ones to proceed at once on the right path. It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Went to bed with a dream. Woke up with a purpose.

Ten soldiers wisely led, Will beat a hundred without a head Euripides (fifth century BC)

John Babsone Lane Soule

I have never done anything in my life that did not have a purpose, usually hidden, sometimes even from myself.

Path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid.

path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid-

Our healthy shame is essential as the foundation of our spirituality. By reminding us of our essential limitations, our healthy shame lets us know that we are not God. Our healthy shame points us in the direction of some larger meaning. Our healthy shame is the psychological ground of our humility.

My great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way, and rowing another.