Quotes About Guidance

The body takes about seven years to replace all its cells. As we age original factory parts get harder to come by. We accept seconds and rebuilds. Some are even transplanted with recycled parts. We get less miles to the gallon, and eventually, after several towings, we must abandon the body by the side of the road. From there we must go the rest of the way alone with just our heart for guidance.

I suggest you pray Psalm 23:3 every day. Lord, please be my good shepherd and restore my soul.

Psalm 23:3 every day. Lord, please be my good shepherd and restore my soul.

He'd actually had parents contact him to ask if there was anything their kids in grammar school should be doing to get ready for applying to college. Looking for sane parents was what he wanted to tell them.

As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power that flows from a solid, unchanging core, you have the foundation of a highly proactive and highly effective life.

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!

The reality is that most families are overmanaged and underled.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They're fundamental.

if God was at the center of your life, everything else would find its proper place.

The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don't tell them what to do.

no enterprise can become or remain truly great without a core set of principles to preserve, to build upon, to serve as an anchor, to provide guidance in the face of an ever-changing world. At the same time, no company can remain great without stimulating progress—change, renewal, improvement, and the pursuit of BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals).

Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

Let people learn from your mistakes or the mistakes of others. Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don't tell them what to do.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. • • • Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

The ideal, of course, is to create one clear center from which you consistently derive a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power, empowering your proactivity and giving congruency and harmony to every part of your life.

Centering on principles provides sufficient security to not be threatened by change, comparisons, or criticisms; guidance to discover our mission, define our roles, and write our scripts and goals; wisdom to learn from our mistakes and seek continuous improvement; and power to communicate and cooperate, even under conditions of stress and fatigue

Principles control consequences; values control behavior.

As one successful parent said about raising children, 'Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

We are more in need of a vision or destination and a compass (a set of principles or directions) and less in need of a road map.

The wisdom and guidance that accompany principle-centered living come from correct maps, from the way things really are, have been, and will be. Correct maps enable us to clearly see where we want to go and how to get there. We can make our decisions using the correct data that will make their implementation possible and meaningful.