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Quotes About Direction

We will not be caught in no man's land.
~ Masai Ujiri
We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.
~ Paul Goodman
Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
~ Adam Clarke
Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
~ Plato
In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!"
~ Henny Youngman
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.
~ Jacques Ellul
If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.
~ Sam Nunn
Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
~ Will Durant
How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?
~ Christopher Fry
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
~ Dalai Lama
A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.
~ David Ruggles
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
~ Edmund Burke
Man thinks, God directs.
~ Alcuin
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
~ Confucius
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
~ Denis Diderot
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.
~ Edmund Yates
No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
~ Terence
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
~ Terence McKenna
Some people aspire to achieve, others are content with just existing. Question is - are you a sheep or a herder?
~ Terpsichore Lindeman