Guidance Quotes

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

Life, Good, Wisdom

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden

Friendship, Good, Art

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant

Another, Immaturity, Incapacity

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Clint Eastwood

Society, Children, Reason

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen

Truth, Him, Cannot

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

War, Understand, Victory

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller

Great, Wise, Enough

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader

Men, Wise, Rules

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
Barbara Bush

May, Lord, President

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini

Strong, Friends, Become

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry, Enough, Here

A blocked path also offers guidance.
Mason Cooley

Path, Blocked, Offers

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
Thomas Huxley

Time, Surely, Hazards

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain

Time, Power, Spiritual

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Donald Rumsfeld

Best, Help, Give

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne Sullivan

Sympathy, Children, Far

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.
Donald Rumsfeld

Help, Decision, Try

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
Donald Rumsfeld

Decisions, Against, Test

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
Matthew Fox

Evil, Racism, Healing

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Human, Study, Sometimes

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
Liam Neeson

Girl, Down, Through

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
Xun Zi

Bravery, Stay, Daring

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.
Benjamin Carson

God, Wisdom, Important

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch Spinoza

Alone, Free, Reason

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
Russell Baker

Poor, Poverty, Born

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
Nick Rahall

Peace, God, Through

You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.
Tina Yothers

Yourself, Until, Direction

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
Al Yankovic

Best, Career, Thought

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Great, Mom, Dad

Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
Bob Woodward

Deep, Public, Interest

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