Quotes About Direction

It's funny—we worry about the big things, about the big decisions we make in our lives, and how they'll affect us. Take this job or that job? Go to school? Marry; don't marry. Move? But it's the little decisions we make that irrevocably destroy us. Dine in or take out? Turn left here or wait a block? Each one of those little decisions drives us toward our end, and we don't even know it.

chasing someone and being chased at the same time. You look in both directions at once.

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

We like to say "I changed my mind," but the human mind alters its direction so rapidly and constantly, we might as well say "My mind changed me.

The best way to figure out what you need to do is to first figure out what you want to do.

Chase the vision, not the money.

to improve the clarity of what you want to achieve or what your goals are exactly you should write them down. This will also improve your chances of success.

A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll... it'll point you true north from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps, deserts and chasms that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp, what's the use of knowing true north?

The voice of God never contradicts Scripture. God never tells us to do something that is different from what he's already expressed through his Word. Though I know God uses prayer, promptings, circumstances, other people, etc., to get our attention and to point us in a new direction, he never tells us to move down a path that's contrary to his plan communicated through the Bible.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

Žodžiai pakelia parpuolus?, o linkstantiems keliams suteikia stipryb?s.

Frøken Aemelin, nesten alt det som folk gjør mot hverandre, betyr som handling betraktet svært lite. Det som er avgjørende, er deres formål, hvor de vil hen, hva de vil ha tak i.

It's funny about paths and rivers," he mused. "You see them go by, and suddenly you feel upset and want to be somewhere else--wherever the path or the river is going, perhaps.

I suppose I'm the one who's going to be figuring out where we are and how to get back?" I asked. "That's right, Dora. You're the map.

Show me the way, Lord. Show me what I am to do, because I fear I have two paths before me and neither one suggests itself over the other.

No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do.

The first time he'd crossed this plaza, years ago, he was walking into a new life. He could not help but wonder if he was doing the same thing yet again, this time walking in the opposite direction. His future had seemed so mysterious to him then. Now, after so much had changed, he found himself walking across the exact same plaza feeling almost exactly the same way. It seemed so strange. How many more plazas, Reynie wondered, would he cross in his life?

You can go wherever you want around the Institute, so long as you keep to the paths and the yellow-tiled corridors.

This frog was going DOWN.

can tell you what to do. That's my job and my favorite thing in life, I mean, seriously.

I can tell you what to do. That's my job and my favorite thing in life, I mean, seriously.

You've had choices, and we haven't seen you make any good ones yet.