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Quotes About Direction

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
~ Randolph Bourne
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.
~ J. P. Morgan
At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.
~ Aldous Huxley
You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go ... and you can change the road you're on at any time.
~ Jinger Heath
What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?
~ Old saying
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
~ Victor Hugo
A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.
~ Lewis K. Bendele
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
~ Mary Kay Ash
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
~ Eric Hoffer
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.
~ Arturo Toscanini
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
~ Ancient Buddhist proverb
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
~ Cyril Connolly
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.
~ Sandor Minab
Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
~ William Penn
In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee.
~ Bible
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
~ Thomas Fuller
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing 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.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.
~ Stephen McKenna
The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.
~ Marcia Wieder
All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
~ Jean de La Fontaine