Quotes About Guidance

If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

If people are following, you're leading. Otherwise you aren't." – Bob Lewis

Tell the children the truth.

Light up the darkness.

God uses all kinds of people to get us the help we need if we will just be aware and sensitive.

Let Bob Buford be your guide to make sure your best years are ahead of you. Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute Manager

The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.

But I do wish some of these young reporters had the opportunity I had to work more closely with editors who could help them shape a story and make it better. "They still get edited, but not the way I worked with editors every step of the way on a story—it was the way we all learned the craft in those days. Today we just don't have that many people.

My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

If you have any reason for coaching other than wanting to develop better people through minor sports, you should probably step aside. And

I can't remember any of those coaches ever telling me to chip the puck off the boards when things got tough in our own end. We were allowed to try things, creative moves that could get us out of jams on the ice (or into them). That kind of coaching would show itself in the way I played as a professional years later. Without that background of guidance from my minor hockey coaches, I doubt I could ever have become the player I did.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

All know the way; few actually walk it.

People really wanted to hear me say that what they were considering [with regard to activities during the COVID-19 pandemic] was okay, no matter what that was. It just doesn't work that way. The most important message was limit your contact to just a very few people.

I've never shot like that in my life. That's unholy." Uncle Cal claimed credit for teaching her to shoot, but while Margo had felt his guidance, she had felt just as strongly the guidance of the gun itself. It held her steady, and then sadness perfected her aim.

People say songs are like your children, no they are like your parents. They tell you what to do, they tell you how to behave, they tell you how to misbehave, how to dress. Everything you do is directed by the songs.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port.

Hey if God will send his angels / And if God will send a sign / And if God will send his angels / Would everything be alright?

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.

It is pretty hard, however, to help a young man who has started wrong. Once he gets the idea that — because he has crammed his head full with mere book knowledge — the world owes him a living, it is hard for him to change.