Quotes about Direction
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
- Frederick Douglass
He who does not advance in perfection falls into imperfection. An unattended garden becomes full of weeds. Things do not remain the same by being left alone. White fences do not stay white; they gradually become gray and then black. There are no planes in the spiritual life. We go uphill or we go downhill. The moment we cease to row against the stream, the current carries us down river.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Whosoever wisely examines the works of God will speedily discover what is next to be done.
- Thomas Becket
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
- Martin Luther
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
- Lewis Carroll
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
- Earl Nightingale
Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.
- Henry Cloud
Why all this guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road, follow it.
- Marcus Aurelius