Quotes About Guidance

When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate in a family setting. Therefore, I have given over my life to mentoring young people. I'm adamant about young people who have been denied a father/daughter relationship.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

It's comforting and relaxing to know exactly what's expected out of you.

Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.

I can only see what's in front of me, but God can see what's behind, what's ahead of me, what's beside me, and it just makes it so much easier to release control, cuz at the end of the day, if He brought me to it, He's gonna have to bring me through it.

I like to know how I'm supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.

If you hire a coach, I believe you should let them do their job.

You have to accept people for who they are. You can guide. You can give people chances. But you cannot hold on to people in fear that you are bad because you can't keep everyone you've hired.

What you find with really good directors is that they kind of leave you alone. They've hired you because they know the kind of work you do and the sense of how you'd approach it. So usually, they'll just stand back and maybe give you a nudge once in a while in terms of something specific they might want in a particular scene.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

It's so strange that God has had his way of looking after me.

Dad's influence naturally came into me, rather than trying to emulate every detail. His way of teaching me was to be sparse, and to be explosive when it needed to be.

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm a good proofreader.

I think actors do need some hand holding to know what they are doing.

As your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington D.C.

What we want with all our hearts will determine in large degree whether we can claim our right to the companionship of the Holy Ghost, without which there can be no spiritual nourishing.

The Holy Spirit gives me everything I need.

I think at times where I fail as a leader is probably when I haven't allowed the Holy Spirit to lead and when I do allow the Holy Spirit to handle it - I think that's when I'm most successful as a leader.

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.