Quotes About Direction

We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.

We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.

Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

You are the one who must choose your place.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Decisions determine destiny.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

I said here's the river I want to flow on, here's the direction I want to go, and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.

Yes, I have doubted. I have wandered off the path, but I always return. It is intuitive, an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

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

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.