Quotes About Direction

it's sad day when you forget your purpose in life.

his brown hair slicked to one side as if his comb only worked in one direction.

When you live surrounded by clutter, it is impossible to have clarity about what you are doing in your life.

Sometimes it was better to pick the first purpose that made sense and live for it single-mindedly than dither between goals that couldn't all be achieved.

My aim is to keep this bathroom clean. Your aim will help.

He wore a watch on his wrist, but only as a cheat to help him differentiate between left and right.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.

When you're going in the right direction, life always looks larger than what you're accustomed to.

But I will tell you that it's maddening to me that men seem to know which way is north, and which way is west—and are always overweeningly proud about that accomplishment, by the way—and yet still you all more than likely will manage to get us poor women lost." "Are you referring to all men, or to your father and brother?" "My father, brother and you," she corrected sweetly.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.