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Quotes About Direction

There was a pothole thump, and "Wind of Change" jumped back to "Show Me the Way.
~ Charles Benoit
So flexible, and yet so stubborn is the human mind. So obedient to impulses the most transient and brief, and yet so unalterably observant of the direction which is given to it! How little did I then foresee the termination of that chain, of which this may be regarded as the first link?
~ Charles Brockden Brown
To be filled with the Spirit means to be controlled by
~ Charles C. Ryrie
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
~ Charles Carlson
The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
~ Charles Chaplin
Doing thousands of little things, day after day, inching along as consistently as you can, in the right direction as best you can tell, is management—and motivating or inspiring everyone to work together for long-term purpose is leadership.
~ Charles D. Ellis
Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Rails that kiss derail; Rails that deviate, too. (Rails qui s'embrassent déraillent; Rails qui s'écartent de même)"
~ Charles de Leusse
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
~ Charles Dickens
Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me.
~ Charles Dickens
My name is on the first leaf. If you can ever write under my name, "I forgive her," though ever so long after my broken heart is dust pray do it!" "O Miss Havisham," said I, "I can do it now. There have been sore mistakes; and my life has been a blind and thankless one; and I want forgiveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you.
~ Charles Dickens
Who could sit upon anything in Fleet-street during the busy hours of the day, and not be dazed and deafened by two immense processions, one ever tending westward with the sun, the other ever tending eastward from the sun, both ever tending to the plains beyond the range of red and purple where the sun goes down!
~ Charles Dickens
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.
~ Charles Dickens
had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all
~ Charles Dickens
Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there; but these were his enemies, the shadows cast by his brightness; that was all.
~ Charles Dickens
what wind blows you here? nit an ill wind, I hope
~ Charles Dickens
There have been sore mistakes; and my life has been a blind and thankless one; and I want forgiveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you.
~ Charles Dickens
had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was
~ Charles Dickens
had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the
~ Charles Dickens
were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
~ Charles Dickens
Y así la visión de obrar bien que con tanta frecuencia es el sangriento espejismo de mucha gente buena, se ofreció a él y hasta llegó a concebir la ilusión de poder ejercer alguna influencia en la dirección de aquella rabiosa Revolución que tan terribles derroteros seguía.
~ Charles Dickens
The crowd in the street jostling the crowd in his mind, and the two crowds making a confusion, he avoided London Bridge, and turned off in the quieter direction of the Iron Bridge.
~ Charles Dickens
The need itself is not the call.
~ Charles E. Hummel
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
~ Charles F. Kettering