Quotes About Guidance

In fact, on the six-figure path, seeking support is not an option, but a requirement.

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

Do you ask, then, what will educate your son? Your example will educate him.

In the family, from the first, the idea of authority has appeared. Protection and order are requisites of the family; and these cannot exist without recognition of an authority.

If you knew the meaning of light you would yourself be a light in a dark place.

One is only safe with shadows if one carries light within.

There's times an angel can't be trusted, or so many wouldn't have lost themselves.

We can't control everything thing our kids do. Sooner or later they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. They're like people that way.

The law is such a sedentary calling, that parents who care for their sons' health should advise them against it.

May the fire be your friend and the sea rock you gently, May the moon light your way - till the wind sets you free

We have forgotten that a society progresses only to the extent that it produces leaders that are capable of guiding and inspiring progress. And we cannot develop such leaders unless our standards of education are geared to excellence instead of mediocrity.

If in one's life a man can but find one truth, and pass it on to those who come after him, he has done well. But

Carlin does a rare thing for a self-help book: gives useful guidance by supplying readers with the tools necessary for change." --Barry Silverstein, "Foreword Reviews

POS: Parent over shoulder

Upon the roadway of my life, A guide-board I will leave of love, So those who follow in my steps May guided be to hills above.

The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that they flee the evil rather than love virtues. Such people aim only to make others as wretched as they themselves are, so it is no wonder that they are generally burdensome and hateful to men.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

Superstitious persons, who know better how to rail at vice than how to teach virtue, and who strive not to guide men by reason, but so to restrain them that they would rather escape evil than love virtue, have no other aim but to make others as wretched as themselves. Wherefore it is nothing wonderful, if they be generally troublesome and odious to their fellow man.

His faith was the guiding principle of his life but it was an intensely reflective personal faith which could not be contained within the rules of a sect. Institutional politics, whether of the church, the state or the university, was a topic that never engaged his interest.

Get wise, youse guys!

As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.

Never, my child, forget to pray, Whate'er the business of the day. If happy dreams have bless'd thy sleep, If startling fears have made thee weep, With holy thoughts begin the day; And ne'er, my child, forget to pray.

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

Like usual, what I want is not important, what I'm supposed to do that counts.