Quotes About Guidance

How do you ever know that you are doing the right thing?

There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater think.

A spark in the night.

Right three degrees, repeat range. Calm, weary voices directing fire. The same sort of voice God uses, perhaps, when He calls souls to Him. This way, please.

Esa, se da cuenta Marie-Laure, es la base de su miedo, de todos los miedos. Que una luz cuyo resplandor no se puede detener brille sobre ti y le indique a la bala hacia dónde dirigirse.

Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you.

We are the bridge generations, the intermediaries, the ones who do the work so that our descendants will be ready.

Sometimes, kid, we all need a little help shoveling the shit.

How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?

What is it to be the parent of a teenager? It is to do what you think best—when really you have no idea what is best. It is to ride out the storms and be back again the next day. It is to give love to a child who does not seem to want it, to a child who five minutes ago seemed to deserve a punch more than anything else.

another letter from Atia and Octavius' stepfather arrived. They advised him not to get overexcited

and in so doing created an experienced army that would follow wherever he led.

Let your motto be, I lead. Strive to be best.

It would have been intended as a broad framework to guide future military activity, if not as a precisely worked-out blueprint.

It would have been intended as a broad framework to guide future military activity

She would have been no help to an ambitious young man's career

This found its classic expression in Homer's Iliad, in which Glaucus says to Diomedes that he still hears his father's urgings ringing in his ears: Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head high above the others.

Don't ask the way of those who know it, you might not get lost.

La luz dentro de ella era como un faro, y nunca más volvería a la oscuridad.

pointing the way ahead and throwing pure, white light on to his immediate surroundings. Alex was at the start of a long tunnel

We need our literary heroes. Life is dark and complicated but they shine out. They're the beacons that we follow.

I controlled him and made sure that I pressed all the right buttons for a young audience. He didn't smoke. He didn't swear. He didn't have a gun. And he certainly wasn't homophobic.

You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.