Quotes About Guidance

Whether the future looks scary or bright, plans are hopes made practical. They reassure people that there's a roadmap that will take them to a better place and they give people a reason to join in the effort to get there.

He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way.

The goal: unrealistic, out of reach. Guidance offered to help in accomplishing the goal: none. The reward: irrelevant, and nowhere near equal in value to the effort required. Here's a scenario more constructive times six: Teacher and student (1) meet one-on-one and (2) discuss and agree to (3) a specific, (4) short-range goal (5) that is achievable and (6) has a meaningful motivator as a reward.

The guidance of a cultured human being will always beat the click of a mouse.

Well, God's vision is clearer than mine, he may both see a way out of this tangle and open my eyes to it when the time is ripe. There's a path through every forest, and a safe passage somewhere through every marsh, it needs only the finding.

If you don't invest time in your children when they are younger, you'll pay for it when they are older.

As the heart and health of the leader goes, so goes the ministry.

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers" (Acts 20:28).

I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.

To call away someone," he went on in the same thrilling voice, "someone who is not quite ready to come, but who is needed elsewhere for a worthier purpose.

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.

Save his own soul he hath no star.

Save his own soul's light overhead, None leads him, and none ever led, Across birth's hidden harbour-bar, Past youth where shoreward shallows are, Through age that drives on toward the red Vast void of sunset hailed from far, To the equal waters of the dead; Save his own soul he hath no star, And sinks, except his own soul guide, Helmless in middle turn of tide.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

Whoever warns you against sins and vices is like the one who gives you good tidings.

I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.

Perhaps the day will come, George thought, when I will listen to my father. For now though, how can I? He's my father.

A wise friend told me that we all could use more than one set of parents—our relations with the original set are too intense, and need dissipating.

It was Malraux, who guided her through the Louvre in 1961, who would order the cleaning of the buildings. When he first articulated the plan, one of his colleagues quipped: wouldn't it be cheaper to blacken the Sacré-Coeur?)

try to help us; you the past led us here . . .

I was always pushed towards this place. Or backwards.