Quotes about Navigation

I heard the main reason the Israelites spent forty years wandering in the desert looking for the Promised Land was because Moses refused to ask directions.

The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.

We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realize we're in the wrong jungle.

It's the set of the sail, and not the gale that determines the way they go.

Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

Who shall distinguish between the law by which a brook finds its river, the instinct by which a bird performs its migrations, and the knowledge by which a man steers his ship round the globe? The globe is the richer for the variety of its inhabitants.

Not till we are completely lost or turned around, do we begin to find ourselves.

Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars!

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

While walking through a dark season, if we attempt to navigate our lives by what we feel, we will run aground onto the rocks. We must navigate by what we

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.