Quotes About Direction

The point of handling our motivation is not necessarily to channel it into a drive to be successful; that would be ambition. Rather, the point is to

If we are consistent in guiding our children in the right direction, and extend grace to them to be immature on the way to maturity then we will have the best chance of maintaining both our standards and a close relationship with our children.

The emphasis is always on what you should do, never on what you should stop doing.

Competition might motivate you at first, urging you to expend more dollars and energy to win. But if competition leads you down the wrong path, you'll be stuck playing someone else's game.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Lives in stories have direction and meaning. Even stupid, meaningless lives, like Lenny's in "Of Mice and Men," Acquire through their places in a story at least the dignity and meaning of being Stupid, Meaningless Lives, the consolation of being exemplars of something. In real life you do not get even that.

A child is like an unruly tree—in order to grow up straight, he must be pruned. 'Raise up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it.'" I

People can make beautiful mistakes, dear, and each one is an arrow, a brilliant arrow, pointing out the right way to there.

All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.

Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind

Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you are, it depends not on this, but on the direction in which you are tending.

Union may be strength, but it is mere brute strength unless wisely directed.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that is going down the wind.

There are certain directions in which you cannot go. Choose one in which you can move as far as you want.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

What is warranted by the direction of nature's light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law?

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

The only plan that truly matters is the one you have for yourself.

Bright Idea #89: If you ever don't know which direction to go in, or you start moving in the right direction but then get lost along the way, don't get rattled and start moving fast, this way and that. Instead, stand still and be quiet. Then you'll be showed which way to go.