Quotes About Direction

To be a leader, you have to lead yourself first.

And you thought there was only one exit door...

The shortest path is not always the fastest.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem.

When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.