Quotes About Guidance

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray...

Intuition, my trustworthy friend...

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

Leadership is often nothing more than doing the right thing and inspiring others to the same.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.

Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness.

Your path is illuminated by the light Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

Literature — a lighthouse to lost souls.

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

My mother held the ladder for me to climb to the stars.

Night is the mother of Councels.

Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson (which is not at all necessary), hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Pray so hard that your words glow in the dark.

Prayer lights our souls through dark times.

The candle of prayer answers the darkness.

Fortune Cookies. — Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

In executing the duties of my present important station I can promise nothing but purity of intentions — and in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence; if these, under the guidance of a superintending Providence, shall continue to me the approbation and affection of my fellow-citizens of the Union, it will be the highest gratification and the most ample reward that my mind can form any conception of in this life.

Proverbs are the lamps to words.

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass.

When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.