Quotes About Guidance

We may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct.

O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus. translation (non-literal): O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors. — Cicero, As quoted in Ben Franklin's Autobiography

He that won't be counseled, can't be helped.

Lighthouses are more useful than churches.

formed the following little prayer, which was prefix'd to my tables of examination, for daily use. "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me.

He that won't be counselled, can't be helped.

with tears and inward supplication besought him so to open my understanding that I might know his will concerning me;

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

However, remember this: They that will not be counseled cannot be helped; and further that, If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles,

If the reason people invest is to make money, then in seeking advice they are asking others to tell them how to make money. That idea has some element of naïveté.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Allow the Spirit to work through you as you journal.

Meditation and prayer work together to facilitate an active two-way relationship between ourselves and God. By adding journaling and reflective writing, we find that the Holy Spirit will use our thoughts and reflections to guide and inspire us, enriching and deepening our understanding of any challenges or difficult circumstances.

Prayer is the method by which we set the intention in Christian meditation. We give the meditation to the Holy Spirit and welcome the Spirit's presence and guidance.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

To me, it's about always trying to make decisions that reflect my leadership and who I am.

I am a reflection of my mother.

If we have poor coaches, that's a reflection of me and a reflection of what we think we can give to the kids.

I try to be a friend to my boys just the way my dad was with me. Subconsciously that reflects in my writing.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you've given it, don't concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and refrain from saying 'I told you so.'