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Quotes About Guidance

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.
~ Eric Shinseki
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.
~ Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
~ Erica Jong
It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.
~ Erik Erikson
Life is a game and people love games. But games need rules. Most children's plays or guileless entertaining assume rules. Without rules we cannot play and without play we cannot enjoy life. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )
~ Erik Pevernagie
Crowpaw,I can hear the voices clearly now, this is for me to do.
~ Erin Hunter
Whitestorm was experienced, wise and brave. When Firestar had been made deputy, he had shown not a scrap of resentment that a lesser cat might have felt. He had supported him from the beginning, and he was the cat Firestar naturally turned to when he needed advice.
~ Erin Hunter
I will honor my ancestors in StarClan," Bramblestar vowed, "but not those who have ever walked in the Dark Forest. Guide my steps wisely, warriors of the past." He lowered his head. "And warriors of now".
~ Erin Hunter
are my light and you gide my way
~ Erin Hunter
The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.
~ Erin Hunter
You have to stop thinking about Billystorm in that way, right now! You have a different destiny, one that involves the future of the whole Clan. And it is a path that you must walk alone.
~ Erin Hunter
Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur. Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67
~ Erin Hunter
I will be with you every step of the way home.
~ Erin Hunter
Destiny isn't a path that any cat follows blindly. It is always a matter of choice, and sometimes the heart speaks loudest.
~ Erin Hunter
You have to be a medicine cat....
~ Erin Hunter
You will find friends in unexpected places. Listen to what midnight tells you.
~ Erin Hunter
You will be a great leader." Bluestar's voice was the merest whisper. "One of the greatest the forest has ever known. You will have the warmth of fire to protect your Clan and the fierceness of fire to defend it. You will be Firestar, the light of ThunderClan.
~ Erin Hunter
You will find friends in unexpected places. Listen to what midnight tells you." "The lake will run red with the blood of brothers!
~ Erin Hunter
Too late," Whitestorm breathed. "I go to hunt with StarClan." "You can't—the Clan needs you! I need you!
~ Erin Hunter
Cedarstar was the first of the nine cats to step forward. He bowed his head to Brokentail and meowed, "I give you a life to live by the warrior code. Remember it well, Brokentail, and let it be your guide. Wiser cats than you or I have lost their way without it.
~ Erin Hunter
Stop it, you two!" Spiderleg's stern mew echoed around the hollow as he separated his kits. "We were just playing," Toadkit complained. "Well, play something quieter!" Spiderleg snapped. "I don't envy you, Graystripe. Two kits are hard enough." Then he yelped in pain. "When I told you to play something else, Toadkit, I didn't mean attacking my tail!
~ Erin Hunter
I give you a life for clear sight," she meowed. "Brokentail, know yourself and your destiny, but know too that destiny can be changed if you choose the right path.
~ Erin Hunter
Before I tell you about your father," Fireheart began, "I want you to remember that ThunderClan is proud of you. You'll both make fine warriors. What I'm going to say now won't make any difference to that.
~ Erin Hunter
But Jaypaw seemed to be guided by invisible paws, as though he walked in a secret world she could never be part of. They
~ Erin Hunter