Quotation Explorer - 'Direction'

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. - E. F. Schumacher
If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction. - Christine Upton
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing. - Rabindranath Tagore
The future is a direction, not a destination. - Edwin Catmull
For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help. - Janusz Korwin-Mikke
When we move in a direction that touches our heart, we add to the momentum of deeper purpose that makes us feel more alive. - Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite? - Anton Chekhov
Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Progress isn't about how fast or how far you are moving, it's about the direction your heart and body is pointed. Keep those aimed at your truest north and you'll get to where you want to be. - Toni Sorenson
At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life. - Sunday Adelaja
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. - Alert Einstein
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work. - Usher Raymond
My journey has begunand the direction is upwards. I am shooting for the stars and will come back with a shine like never before. I am blessed beyond measure. - Positive Attitude
A Revolution is always A Step in the Forward Direction benefiting the majority. - Ashok Khurana
To reach your Destination, you need a Direction, but you can't get there without Inspiration!- - RVM
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose. - Vincent van Gogh
Speed is dangerous if your direction is wrong. - Debasish Mridha
Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life. - Jim George
I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant. - Anthony Liccione
I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A different direction defines what to me is real and to you is hooey. - Azza Nazh
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. - Professor Irwin Corey
France is like a great compass, which ever way they point to, go the complete opposite direction and you'll be fine. - P. J. O'Rourke
Universe is expanding to infinity without a center in space. How come humans claim a direction to their life? - Vishwanath S J
The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God’s great knowledge, their abilities versus God’s priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works. - Ezra Taft Benson
There are no signboards in life; your inner voice and your inner knowledge are enough to lead you in the direction of your highest evolution. - Priya Kumar
It's not the speed that will help you succeed. It's the right DIRECTION. - Mohith Agadi
Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti). - Dada Bhagwan
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. - Edgar Allan Poe
Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going. - Deborah Day
To realize your imagination, go with trust in the direction of your destination. - Debasish Mridha
A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters. - Anne Frank
Until you have a purpose and clear direction of your life (business) you would only be building a fake brand - Bernard Kelvin Clive
If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed. - Chinese Proverb
Mind is indeed that which takes one to Moksha, and it is also the mind that makes one wander around in the worldly life. One needs to just turn it in the right direction. It had been turned in the wrong direction, and so it needs to be turned in the right direction. - Dada Bhagwan
Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction. - K. Hari Kumar
The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you trust your inner guidance and begin moving in the direction of your dreams (aligned with your individual gifts) you will be cloaked in an armor bestowed upon you by your guardian angel. - Charles F. Glassman
Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you a wonder! Just ponder and take action in the right direction, and you shall surely be a wonder! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When the government and electrical utility company jointly harass an electrical fraud researcher, it confirms that the research is progressing in the right direction! - Steven Magee
I will always be confident in the direction of my dreams because that's the life I wish to live. - Alfusainey jallow
Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, you will get to the finish line. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The mind's direction is more important than its progress. - Joseph Joubert
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed. - Chinese Proverb
If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ. - Gary W. Moon
we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn - Don Campbell
Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe. - Abhijit Naskar
If you should see/a man/walking down a crowded street/ talking aloud/ to himself don't run/in the opposite direction but run toward him/for he is a poet! You have nothing to fear/from a poet but the truth - Ted Joans
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, forever. - Geoffrey Wood
Hard work is vital to success. As long as it's in the right direction! - Izey Victoria Odiase
God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways. - Shannon L. Alder
Always look in the direction of sun and stars; the sacred light of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want. - Ken Rockwell
Let education kindle only those which are truly beneficialto the human species; let it favour those alone which are really necessary to the maintenance of society. The passions of man are dangerous, only because every thing conspires to give them an evil direction. - Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach
When you don't know where you are going in life (No Clear Destination), you don't need direction... you need Divine Revelation - Fela Durotoye
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from. - C. JoyBell C.
The only reason that people 'Choose' to go backwards is because they let their mind take control. Their mind points them in that direction because it's convenient. If we learn to quiet the mind the soul has a way of painting the bigger picture for taking the right action into growth. - Matthew Donnelly
In this world there is no bigger constructive & destructive power than desire .Everything you can change & can give up a new direction to your life.It depends on you in which direction you go. - Saurabh Deoli
If we head in the direction of our dreams and accept the winds and rains that will test our resolve, we can experience the deep satisfaction of looking back upon the path of a life well lived. - Jeffrey H Ryan
People's rejection can be God's direction for you. - Farshad Asl
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau
when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society. - Richard Dawkins
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution. - Capies Pitts
Simply sailing in a new direction you could enlarge the world - Allen Curnow
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you. - J. K. Rowling
Direction is only necessary when your destination is certain but the path to get there isn't clear to you - Fela Durotoye
Are you a dreamer or a doer? Hopefully you are both because a dream with no action is just a dream and a plan with no ending goal is senseless direction. Follow and accomplish your dreams with a plan of action! - Augusta DeJuan Hathaway
During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high. - Kurt Vonnegut
The world is like a giant Alcoholic whining day to day about what others are doing. Instead of of living harmoniously and individually for Good Orderly Direction. If we have faith in our God, than why should we care how others are living their lives? - B.L. Kennison
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained. - Sal Martinez
Look forward, in the direction of sunshine. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... - Dr. Seuss
Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction. - J. Loren Norris
From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end. - Keri Hulme
If you have no good drive in you, your life will not be steered through a good direction. It will miss its destined station. Passion or drive is what moves the vehicle of a fulfilled life. - Israelmore Ayivor
Christ in you is the hope of glory..." "Your life moves in the direction of your most dominant thought" "Love is never unsure" "Truth demands a response - Various
Children I implore youget out of the burning house nowthree carts wait outsideto save you from a homeless liferelax in the village squarebefore the sky everything's emptyno direction is better or worseeast is just as good as westthose who know the meaning of thisare free to go where they want - Han-shan
Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays. - Nikki Rowe
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes… - Jennifer Elisabeth
If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going. - Irwin Corey
Don’t rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Always walk toward the direction of your love. - Debasish Mridha
I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my direction because of God's loving mercy. - Nathaniel E. Quimada
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? - Charles M. Schulz
We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It’s when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life. - Anthony Liccione
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. - Zig Ziglar
I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow. - Shannon L. Alder
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. - Henry David Thoreau
Always keep dreaming. Follow those visions, listen to those whispers and pursue those dreams that keep trying to nudge you in the right direction. It is not impossible to achieve them. - Sandy Hubacka Treft
Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want to believe that the specific direction we have chosen is the "correct one", if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so. - Miya Yamanouchi
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . - Socrates
When two people love each other, they don't look at each other; they look in the same direction.
You are free to travel on the road you pave for yourself but you have to pay penalty if you do not go in the right direction. - Amit Abraham
Positive thoughts dramatically alter the direction of your life. - Thomas, Lynne
I will not cease to walk in the direction towards my purpose, even if it means constantly walking on a bumpy road. - Gugu Mona
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. - Abraham Maslow
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. - Zig Ziglar
I fought with all I had, a battle led by heart and faith. I fought till I had nothing. How do you restart without a heart or faith?? Now lost, broken and with no direction, I often wonder if I should have quit , while I had something left in the tank. - Terry Houchin
Every person is driven in the direction of own destination with the help an invisible rope called dream, but the desire leads one only towards material attraction. - Anuj Somany
Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. - Henry David Thoreau
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Disappointment, fear, grief, unlove, dullness and guilt are the worst feelings. Learn from them so that you move on. Then replace them with more satisfying and promising joy, love gratitude, pride, confidence, direction. - Diana Jaber
If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream. - Shannon L. Alder
Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. - Deborah Day
One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most. - Deborah Day
Don't let your tragedies fool you, they were never meant to alter your path; just re-pave your direction. Spend time nurturing the things that once tore you apart and you will find within you, your most empowering strength. - Nikki Rowe
Have an intrinsic sense of direction of life. Have a goal-oriented conviction and trust. - Debasish Mridha
Go where the situation takes you, but never forget where you came from, where you belong and the direction of where you entered in. - Auliq Ice
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. - Franz Kafka
It’s easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed. - Terry A. O'Neal
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence! - Israelmore Ayivor
Kids need to find someone going the same direction by the same methodology and try not to fall in love beforehand. Toby Willis - The Willis Clan
A person is walking in the right direction of his life as long as he can hear the Eco of his positive voice. - Anuj Somany
It's not all about the direction, it's about the destination. - J.T. Abraham
You can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Love can bless you with a sense of purpose and direction when all else fails. Because to have faith in love is to be optimistic about life. Love is hopefulness. - Kamand Kojouri
The second direction of prayer lies in us addressing our own circumstances and changing them ourselves - Sunday Adelaja
Not all doors open in the same direction and with the same effort! - Jasleen Kaur Gumber
The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go. - Shannon Ables
The times I am most frustrated in homeschooling is when I become focused more on my plans than His plans. I must spend more time daily looking up for his divine direction than I do looking down at my lesson plans. - Tamara L. Chilver
At the crossroad in my life, I didn't know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direction... then, after regretting my decision I tried to retrace my steps. However, without even realizing it the sun had already set. - Nobuyuki Fukumoto
There is a big difference between motion and action. Just because you get out of bed doesn't mean you are making progress. Taking action requires decisiveness, dedication, and clear direction. - Farshad Asl
Welfare reforms and the whole happy exploitation movement are not baby steps. They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction. - Gary L. Francione
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is perhaps nothing more startling for the humanity than how most people start moving in one direction on given a call, without even giving a second thought as in which way they are heading. - Anuj Somany
The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that. - Steve Maraboli
Life is Ambition, not for Survive but for Be Better each second, for Superate your Records and to Get your Goals.All the rest is a Redundant Speech & a Boring Literature.You Decide the Direction of your Life, but remains Inspired and Assume all the Consequences.Complacency is Death. - Fernando González y Lozano
Humanity is evolving in the direction of not doing what it does. - Anatoly Agulyansky
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. - Neil Gaiman
I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand. - Nathan Reese Maher
When you can't seem to find happiness or peace in either direction you turn, maybe its time for self evaluation. - Auliq Ice
Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction... - Winston Graham
Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior. - David Allen
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. - Bryce Courtenay
Hitting rock bottom is the most precious level of our lives: because then we can choose which foundation to build, direction to take, and mental programs to embrace. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Be mindful of your self-talk. It is a conversation with the universe. You are a being, full of infinite possibilities! Focus your mind with positivity and you will have dictated the direction of your journey, your soul and your being, cascading in infinite abundance. - Angie karan
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Debates should always move in the direction of understanding. - R.A.Delmonico
Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself. - Toni Sorenson
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction. - John Dewey
Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions. - Matshona Dhliwayo
When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction. - Molly Friedenfeld
A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction. - Craig Mercier
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein
Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction. - Kellie Elmore
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. - Louisa May Alcott
Now the big question is: what direction are you moving? Look inward; there is a burning desire in your heart that will make you the person you can become A superstar! - Maureen Lawrence
Faith" will help put us together on the same direction. Faith is building a relationship with God where he is in control. It is about believing although we do not always see. Do we love God with all our heart, mind, and soul? Can we follow his voice? - Phil Mitchell
A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer. - John Fowles
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." . "Just try to make sure that you step in the right direction. - Lao Tzu
I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will not only its moment to jump off but its direction. In that case I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist. - Albert Einstein
If you on the wrong path, change and travel on right direction. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Ernst F. Schumacher
The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I realised that life had changed us both. But somehow, instead of heading into the same direction, we were rapidly diverging from a common point, until the link between us was fast fading away. - Jane Finn
It does not matter where you are—from this very moment on you choose the direction of your life. - Toni Sorenson
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. - Anne-Sophie Swetchine
I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer. - Robert Jordan
The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape. - Eric Hoffer
Cause channeled in the wrong direction is indistinguishable from handcap - Dr Lloyd Magangeni
To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself. - Hunter S. Thompson
If you find you are traveling on wrong road, turn to the right direction. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Trust what your instincts are telling you, it's your souls voice pointing you in the right direction. - Nikki Rowe
Your situation does not dictate your direction. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Remember, if you're heading in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! - Allison Gappa Bottke
Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem. - Betty Bleen
Make sure you know the Bible well enough to figure out if what someone says is fact or their own opinions. If you don't it could lead you in the wrong direction. - Amanda Penland
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau
When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out. - R. N. Prasher
Your head sits on a neck that turns to let you see where you’ve been. But, your eyes point the same direction as your feet for a reason; keep moving forward. - D. Denise Dianaty
So long as you are going in the right direction then the speed of your travel is unimportant. - Stephen Richards
To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction. - Roopleen
Your future, hopes and dreams should never be tied down to anybody! The strength lies inside of you to decide at any moment your direction. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Oh, miss Haversham said I,there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you. - Charles Dickens
Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction. - Shannon L. Alder
It’s better to make baby steps in the right direction than big steps in the wrong direction! - Lily Amis
Your deep driving desires define your direction. - Debasish Mridha
nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character. - Winston S. Churchill
Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction. - Tariq Ramadan
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. LaoTzu. Just make sure that you step in the right direction. - Lao Tzu
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your future will definitely head to the same direction with your thoughts; this is why planning your thought is so important. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
My parents and grandparents did not tolerate idle thoughts or behavior. If the action did not have a purpose or lead you in a positive direction, their feeling was why bother? This is how I was built. This is why I refuse to fail. - Carlos Wallace
The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him. - Sunday Adelaja
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. - Susan Sontag
The third direction of prayer is prayer against Satan, devils and demons - Sunday Adelaja
If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction. - Martin Kornfeld
She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities -- this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny. - Laurie Colwin
Midnight sail and moonlight. I remember sunset, and gentle breeze. Leaving the city lights behind, and gazing at the moon. Mountains of clouds. Waves slapping our boat. It was easy to forget that love has no direction, or need for compass. Let it guide you to its destination. ~ , 2016 - Fidelis O Mkparu
But even though there´s no more hope, again there´s no need to harm yourself, despite your feeling as if there´s no ground beneath you and no choice in any direction. But when we do let go, how wonderful. We discover that the darkness is actually full of light. - Jakusho Kwong
Always look in the direction of sun and stars; the sacred path of light. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The wisest men follow their own direction. - Euripides
Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will. - Gregory of Nyssa
Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.' If telepathy ever becomes a possibility he was not sure it would be a good thing, '...for it may put us back in contact with the spirits of the dead and progress does not lie in that direction. - H.R. Wakefield
Over the years I have realized it's not the people who come into your life but the choices they force you to make gives the direction to your life. - Amit Abraham
Without sense of direction, efforts land nowhere. - Saru Singhal
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Knowledge gives shows us a direction; education gives us power to walk. - Debasish Mridha
Life is made of connections. Who knows why fate throws things in our direction, but one thing's for sure, new things are there to offer value to our lives and teach us something new about ourselves. It's what makes life exciting. - Serina Hartwell
Sometimes the greatest act of love is to walk away, so that the other person can find their true self and direction again. - Auliq Ice
Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction. - Amit Ray
to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction? - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you have legs that work, walk in the right direction. If you have an audible voice, say constructive words. If you have functional eyes, see great things. If you are in a position of power, use it productively and if you have a sound mind, think exceptionally; for such is not a given, but grace. - Gugu Mona
Go relentlessly in the direction of your ultimate purpose of life and that which makes you happy. - Debasish Mridha
The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good. - Terry Pratchett
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life - Plato
Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free. - Mary Karr
​On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction. - Abhijit Naskar
A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life. - Euginia Herlihy
Direction, not intention determines your destination. - Andy Stanley
Just let go of the oars. Whenyou‘re no longer paddling against the Current, when you release your oars and relax into your ownnatural Well-Being, the Current, which is ever moving in the direction of that which you havebecome and all that you want, will carry you toward your desires. - Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks
No one chooses his parent or childhood, but you can choose your own direction. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome. - Anonymous
Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark. - Elder David A. Bednar
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
We don’t have to be fast; we simply have to be steady and move in the right direction. Direction is always going to trump speed. - Toni Sorenson
The direction of time's arrow, is the breaking of the symmetry, of the potential, of the boundary condition. - R.A.Delmonico
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading - Gautama Buddha
Money makes the world go round, but love makes the universe go in every direction. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. This asymmetry in the direction of ideological migration is interesting and perhaps informative. - Robert Higgs
Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free. - Mary Karr
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. - Margaret Mead
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. - Margaret Cho
To find one’s purpose is to discover one’s worth, discern one’s direction, wholly dedicate oneself to the journey, and forge an unbending determination that I will not leave the world the way I found it. This week's blog outlines the finding of our purpose. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Even the most terrible beginnings can turn into beautiful endings when the direction is changed. - Apoorve Dubey
Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault. - Dada Bhagwan
When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others. - Charles R. Swindoll
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