Quotes About Guidance

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Lord, I cannot walk in the narrow path. Do Thou Thyself come to me and fill my heart and keep my feet.

But where's the man who counsel can bestow,Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know?

What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.

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Let such teach others who themselves excel

If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Love, a little church that standing all alone, waits with open doors, but nobody goes there to pray, the prayers will go unsaid, now, where to go? which way? love, be my beacon, teach me to look at an empty sky without fear.

You came in to this world with enough light to find your way out of the dark, enough kindness to save a soul, enough love to shift a planet. Don't worry, you are enquipped with all you could ever need. Look with in, you are drenched in magic.

What matters most is the reason for our decisions, and the extent to which we're willing to provide guidance, to support children's choices, to be there with them—all of which is a lot more challenging than just saying yes or no.

Obviously, things work best when parents and teachers are helping kids to become good people—and, better yet, when they're actively supporting one another's efforts.

The inevitable result of consistently employing power to control [your] kids when they are young is that [you] never learn how to influence." The more you rely on punishment, therefore, "the less real influence you'll have on their lives.

As Thomas Gordon pointed out, 'The inevitable result of consistently employing power to control [your] kids when they are young is that [you] never learn how to influence.' The more you rely on punishment, therefore, 'the less real influence you'll have on their lives.

The author Barbara Coloroso suggests that, before asking something, you might 'question why you are asking it.' Laying bare our motives can offer guidance about whether it's worth asking. Hint: it's when we're not entirely sure what the child will say, and when we're open to more than one response, that a question is most likely to be beneficial.

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

I am His sheep and he is my shepperd. I roamed and he let me. Then he called me. And he led me.

Ami, ne t'en va plus si loin. D'un peu d'aide j'ai grand besoin, Quoi qu'il m'advienne. Je ne sais où va mon chemin, Mais je marche mieux quand ma main Serre la tienne.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 NIV

I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 NIV