Quotes About Guidance

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

passionate leadership.

Last, you've got to do more leading and less managing. Be a visible and motivating presence.

Each age needs its own language for understanding enduring truths…The ancient world didn't have much of what we call reality; they lived, instead, by the slender threads. We have gained ego reality but have lost the mystical and religious functions that should guide our lives.

The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads.

The stars incline, but do not impel.

Leadership must entail trusteeship. Leaders are stewards of the unwritten rules we once took for granted, that constituted the common good.

Without question, when people are uncertain, they are more likely to use others' actions to decide how they themselves should act.

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves.

All this has important implications for rearing children. It suggests that we should never heavily bribe or threaten our children to do the things we want them truly to believe in.

the guiding factor in a decision is often not the one that counsels most wisely; it's one that has recently been brought to mind.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

If God made the boy a creature of extreme and restless energy, with an inquisitive and eager mind, a sensitive little heart, and a romantic imagination, it is up to you (Cub leaders) to make full use of these insted of crushing them.

Tyhle kapitoly vás zklamou, pokud si myslíte, že v nich najdete úplný a p?esný návod, jak vést skautský oddíl. Cht?l bych tu jen ukázat a nabídnout základní sm?r cesty k úsp?chu a zd?vodnit jej.

Ukažte mi nedbale krojovaný oddíl a já "vypátrám", že ani jeho v?dce nemá kroj v po?ádku. Myslete na to, až se budete do kroje oblékat! Dáváte svým chlapc?m p?íklad a pokud budete mít kroj p?kn? upravený, od- razí se to i na vašich skautech.

Tisíce chlapc? ztrácíme každý den tím, že je necháváme vyr?stat v bezcharakterní, neužite?né lidi. Mnozí z nich by mohli být zachrán?ni, kdyby vyr?stali v dobrém prost?edí a v dobrých podmínkách práv? v tom životním období, kdy jsou vnímaví a schopní zm?ny.

Of all things in this world love is the most unmanageable. Parents and guardians are sadly foiled when they undertake to guide and coerce it: and the best thing they can do with it is to leave it to itself.

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. ...The law is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely.

A blind man will suffer himself to be led, though by a dog, or a child.

What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.

A watched child never learns.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.