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Quotes About Guidance

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.
~ William Wilberforce
Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
~ Winston Churchill
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
~ Ben Jonson
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
~ Black Elk
If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.
~ Carlos Santana
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
~ Samuel Butler
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
~ Seneca the Younger
A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.
~ Solomon
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
~ Thomas Aquinas
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I have always advised men to read
~ Mother Jones
Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
~ Paul Gauguin
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?
~ Richard J. Daley
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
~ Karl Barth
Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
~ Adam Clarke
The idea of molding men means a lot to me.
~ Bear Bryant
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
~ Black Elk
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
~ Lillian Hellman
Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.