Quotes About Guidance

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Instead of asking, "what do I want from life?," a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Like Zidane I want to inspire the kids

You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you

I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.

Nobody wants to stand behind a parked car. You got to always follow somebody who keeps it moving.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

As we patiently follow the Savior, He will bless us beyond our own capacity to become what He wants us to be.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.