Quotes About Guidance

Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves.

The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.

Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.

When stories are not told, we risk losing our way.

Deberían dejarse guiar más por la razón».

Emotions and the feelings are not a luxury, they are a means of communicating our states of mind to others. But they are also a way of guiding our own judgments and decisions. Emotions bring the body into the loop of reason.

Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways.

Much of our life is guided by the beliefs we develop over the course of time; the story we create about what life's about, how we're supposed to be, what we're supposed to do or give.

When it comes to the areas of your life that matter most—your family, your faith, your health, your finances—you can't rely on anybody else to tell you what to do. It's great to get coaching from experts in the field, but you can't outsource the final decision. You can't give another person control over your destiny, no matter how sincere or skilled he or she may be.

If you don't make decisions about how you're going to live, then you've already made a decision, haven't you? You're making a decision to be directed by the environment instead of shaping your own destiny.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. —HENRY KISSINGER

Allí donde no hay visión, el pueblo perece… PROVERBIOS, 29, 18

I've always believed the best way to get a result, the fastest way, is to find someone who has already accomplished what you're after, and model his or her behavior.

Success leaves clues.

Rule 1: don't lose money. Rule 2: see Rule 1. —WARREN BUFFETT'S RULES OF INVESTING

What are our beliefs designed for? They're the guiding force to tell us what will lead to pain and what will lead to pleasure.

Credo de siete puntos de John Wooden: «Conseguir lo mejor de sí mismo» 1. Sé fiel a ti mismo. 2. Que cada día sea tu obra maestra. 3. Ayuda a los demás. 4. Bebe profundamente de los buenos libros. 5. Convierte la amistad en un arte. 6. Créate un abrigo para los días de lluvia. 7. Reza para encontrar guía, y da las gracias por las bendiciones de cada día.

The author now leaves him in the hands of his readers: not as a hero, not as a man to be admired and talked of, not as a man who should be toasted at public dinners and spoken of with conventional absurdity as a perfect divine, but as a good man, without guile, believing humbly in the religion which he has striven to teach, and guided by the precepts which he has striven to learn.

She had wished to be imprudent when she was young; but her friends had been too strong for her. She had been reduced, and kept in order, and made to run in a groove, — and was now, when she sat looking at her little boy with his bold face, almost inclined to think that the world was right, and that grooves were best. But if she had been controlled when she was young, so ought the Duke to be controlled now that he was old.

Aid from heaven you may have," he said, "by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask it for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.

the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy.

After some loose fashion we turn over things in our mind and ultimately reach some decision, guided probably by our feelings at the last moment rather than by any process of ratiocination;-and then we think that we have thought.

We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.

As parents, I believe it's our job to enhance the good for our kids even as we try to mitigate the bad, and more than that, to remain open to learning what our children's media interests have to teach us.