Quotes About Guidance

That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

Remember that tomorrow when you are trying to get somebody to do something. If, for example, you don't want your children to smoke, don't preach at them, and don't talk about what you want; but show them that cigarettes may keep them from making the basketball team or winning the hundred-yard dash.

In looking over a letter of one of his assistants, he would say, "Maybe if we were to phrase it this way it would be better." He always gave people the opportunity to do things themselves; he never told his assistants to do things; he let them do them, let them learn from their mistakes.

Hay una divinidad que forja nuestros fines, por mucho que queramos alterarlos.

We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.

If you want to help others to improve, remember…     Principle 8 Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. Work alone will not do it unless inspired by the right ideals and guided by intelligence. Education must not simply teach work—it must teach Life.

God, if you recall, did not warn his people against dirty books. He warned them against high places.

Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out? He said: 'Queenie, I think I'm going to pass out and before I do, I'm going to give you a piece of advice' - God, I thought he was going to die and knew and was telling me what to do with his book - and he said quite solemnly: 'Queenie, always stick to Bach and the early Italians' - and passed out cold as a mackerel. And by God, it's not bad advice.

All I'm saying, Dad, is that I accept that I don't know. But I have faith that my Lord and Savior does, so I'm putting myself in His hands. Humbling myself to a wisdom that's above and beyond me and praying for His guidance.

Your children are not your children,'" he said. "'They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.'" "What's that supposed to mean?" I lit another Doral. "It's from The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran.

Prophet. Kahlil Gibran.

Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try new things but still makes you feel safe.

I have no chair, no church, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the       imperious waves

O the blest eyes, the happy hearts, That see, that know the guiding thread so fine, Along the mighty labyrinth. -from Song of the Universal

Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation.

Keep your face always toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you

Az engedelmességrÅ'l, h?ségrÅ'l, ragaszkodásról; Amint így távol állok, s elnézem, van számomra valami mélységesen megható az óriási embertömegekben, amelyek azok irányítását követik, akik nem hisznek az emberiségben.

I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me? I follow you whoever you are from the present hour, My words itch at your ears till you understand them.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.