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Quotes About Guidance

Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.
~ James MacGregor Burns
There is a transcendent power in example.
~ Sophie Swetchine
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
~ Benjamin Spock
I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
~ Wangari Maathai
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
~ Edward Abbey
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.
~ Bob Seger
I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.
~ Janet Jackson
Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment
~ Myles Munroe
You must never underestimate the power of your righteous influence.
~ Elaine S. Dalton
As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.
~ David L. Beck
It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.
~ Nuno Oliveira
You are learned in the Word of God--And if you know His Word, you know His Will.
~ Will Eisner
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
~ Will Rogers
What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?
~ Will Schwalbe
The day's passage was by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It read: That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
~ Will Schwalbe
Samuel Smiles's 1859 bestseller Self-Help (with illustrations of Character and Conduct).
~ Will Schwalbe
Of all persons living, he who does not remember that he has once been young, is the most completely disqualified for giving youthful counsel.
~ William A. Alcott
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
~ William Allen White
He reasoned because human consciousness is a part of universal life, that the part may not be greater than the whole. Therefore he concluded that the purposive force which directs life, which guides the stars in their courses and spurs and speeds the energies inside the atom, is of itself a consciousness.
~ William Allen White