Quotes About Direction

You see," he went on, "some people live all their lives without knowing which path is right. They're buffeted by this wind or that and never really know where they're going. That's largely the fate of the commoners—those who have no choice over their destiny. For those of us born as samurai, life is something else. We know the path of duty and we follow it without question.

Your friendships will decide the themes of your life.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Spending the first early minutes of the morning with God, asking him to help us navigate through the known and the unknown in the hours ahead, will do more to get our priorities in place than hours of soul-searching and weighing our options.

What is my purpose here? I may say, I just sat down to write, but I am not deceived. I have never done anything in my life that did not have a purpose, usually hidden, sometimes even from myself.

I felt like a theatre-goer trapped in the middle of a long second act who hears, outside, a fire engine howling past in the direction of his own house.

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

To be or to do? Which way will you go?

I married up several times. And then across once or twice. And then beneath me. I never quite found the right level somehow. Perhaps I should have married diagonally or in a slightly curved direction.

In that direction only pain lies.

It's the beginning of wisdom when you admit you've gone astray.

I see now that the wind must have veered to the south-east, and that my plan was leading me into the fastnesses of the hills; but I would have wandered for weeks sooner than disobey the word of the girl who sang in the rain.

In a tangle of duties a man must seize the solitary clear one... Buchan, John. Salute to Adventurers (p. 172). Kindle Edition.

You came in by yourselves, without His direction, and will go out by yourselves, without His mercy. To

Do you see yonder shining light? He said, I think I do. Then said Evangelist, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto

Y además", dijeron ellos, "si entramos en el camino, ¿qué importa de qué modo entramos? Si estamos dentro, estamos dentro; tú estás en el camino, y según percibimos, entraste por la puerta; y nosotros también estamos en el camino saltando por el muro; entonces, ¿en qué es tu condición mejor que la nuestra?".

Then I thought that it is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.)

Now this, as I said, is called the fear of the Lord, because it is called the rule and director of our fear. For we know not how to fear the Lord in a saving way without its guidance and direction.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." —Jim Rohn

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." -John C. Maxwell

An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.