Quotes about Direction
I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives.
— Bill Bailey
The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.
— Karl Barth
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
— Ayn Rand
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.
— David O. McKay
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
— Richard Paul Evans
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Money makes the world go round, but love makes the universe go in every direction.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.
— Joe Biden
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.
— Frederick Buechner