Direction Quotes

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

You will move in the direction you are facing.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

They aimless halt, who halt for others.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.

Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey.

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

Effort is the key, but direction and loyalty are paramount.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Play needs direction as well as work.

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.

If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.