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Quotes About Guidance

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.
~ Standing Bear
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
~ William Cowper
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.
~ William Shakespeare
Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
~ Brian Tracy
FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
~ Austin Phelps
There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.
~ Barack Obama
If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.
~ Benjamin Franklin
While the best men are guided by love, most men are still goaded by fear.
~ Saint Augustine
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
~ Samuel Smiles
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
~ Samuel Smiles
Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today.
~ Sebastian Janikowski
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
~ Seneca the Elder
Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.
~ Unknown
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
~ Victor Hugo
It is always well to get near to men of genius.
~ William Henry Moody
Every man's life is a plan of God.
~ Horace Bushnell
To be a man, a boy must see a man
~ J. R. Moehringer
Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
~ John Locke
Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.
~ John Wayne