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Quotes About Direction

In hearing the word, we look into it for counsel and direction, and when we study it, it turns to our spiritual life. Those
~ Matthew Henry
Those that sincerely design and endeavour to do their duty may in faith beg of God direction and strength for the doing of it.
~ Matthew Henry
If you don't know what you want form life, everything will appear either as an obstacle or a burden. But one of the greatest lessons of history is that the whole world gets out of the way for people who know what they want or where they are going. Be assure, if you don't know where you are going, you are lost.
~ Matthew Kelly
Choices got you here, but if you don't like "here" all you need to do is start making different choices.
~ Matthew Kelly
We build our lives one choice at a time.
~ Matthew Kelly
Everything should be embraced or rejected according to how it affects our essential purpose.
~ Matthew Kelly
In a world where so little makes sense, understanding our essential purpose makes sense of everything. In a world of clutter and confusion, understanding our essential purpose brings a startling clarity to the moments of our everyday lives. In a world filled with experts and their contradictory theories, understanding our essential purpose helps us to listen once again to the quiet voice within.
~ Matthew Kelly
Way is not a talk. It is a walk. You can
~ Unknown
Happiness is not given to us, nor is misery imposed. At every moment we are at a crossroads and must choose the direction we will take.
~ Matthieu Ricard
The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.
~ Maureen Johnson
I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy." I had been tracked, like a bear. "Sorry to make you go to all that trouble," I said. "I didn't have to go that far, really. You're about three streets over. You just kept going in loops." A really inept bear.
~ Maureen Johnson
The awareness of truth advances like a crab, turned towardits point of departure, toward that structure whose signification it expresses.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Circularity--a dangerous word. Circularity of Heraclitus, yes: to go in one direction is truly to go in the other. A thick identity there, which truly contains difference.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Zigzag... don't bunch up. Weave like a drunk on New Year's... Got it?
~ Max Allan Collins
The key American shortcoming, in the early twenty-first century as in the 1960s, was the inability to constructively guide the leaders of allied states in the direction desired by Washington
~ Max Boot
When in doubt, head into the wind.
~ Max Brand
Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.
~ Max Brooks
Readers are the leaders others follow.
~ Unknown
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
~ Max Lucado
To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.
~ Max Lucado
It is precisely the essential feature of egoism that it does not apprehend the full value of the isolated self. The egoist sees himself only with regard to the others, as a member of society who wishes to possess and acquire more than the others. Self-directedness or other-directedness have no essential bearing on the specific quality of love or hatred. These acts are different in themselves, quite independently of their direction
~ Max Scheler
Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle," I told him. "A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go. It's no wonder you feel shaky.
~ Maxwell Maltz
A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go.
~ Maxwell Maltz
I have found that an easy-to-remember picture of the successful personality is contained in the letters of the word "success" itself. The success-type personality is composed of: Sense of direction Understanding Courage Compassion Esteem Self-Confidence Self-Acceptance
~ Maxwell Maltz