Quotes About Guidance

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The 1st is Where am I going? and the 2nd is Who will go with me? If you ever get these questions in the wrong order , you are in trouble.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.

Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

You'd better take care of me, Lord. If you don't, you're gonna have me on your hands.

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal — to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

Just as a man carrying on his head a load of wood that has caught fire would go rushing to a pond to quench the flames, even so will the seeker of truth, scorched by the fires of life—birth, death, self-deluding futility—go rushing to a teacher wise to the ways of the things that matter most.

He told me once that praying is like being a soccer coach and calling saints off the bench.

Don't lose faith in your stars.

Most houses were crammed with immovable objects in their proper places, and each object told you what to do - here you ate, here you slept, here you sat. I tried to imagine carpets, wardrobes, pictures, chairs, a sewing machine, in these gaping, smashed-up rooms. I was pleased by how irrelevant, how puny such objects now appeared.

I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.

Nimitz concerned himself with the general discipline of leadership.

If you ever decide on a career change, I'd avoid motivational speaking.

Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?

What did I tell you about plastic ties? Only for humans, Julie murmured. If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything.

When I was a young man, I worked at the Boys and Girls Club in St. Louis, Missouri, and another boys club called Matthews-Dickey.

I've got a lot of time and respect for Arsene, and I think he developed me into a good young man as well, and I'm very thankful for that.

To be able to look a young man in his eyes and believe in him and trust him and push him to be better, I get more out of that than scoring 3-pointers in general.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.