Direct Quotes

• One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Twitter post from May 11, 2010

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• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Best Effort

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• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Simple, Accountability, Political

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• In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Direct Action, Alive, Surface

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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• There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Selfish, Mean, Destiny

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• One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.

  Ibn Majah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Rewards

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• My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Empathy, Indirect, Synthetic

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don't choose to be.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Outcomes, Faces, Situation

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 07, 2015

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• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, War, Character

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• My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

  Dick Dale

  Uncles, Sound, Ears

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• Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy of the past has been to drive; but the era of force must give way to the era of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and lead, to the advantage of all concerned.

  Henry Gantt

  Team, Future, Knowledge

  "Work, Wages, and Profits: Their Influence on the Cost of Living". P. 116. Book by Henry Gantt, 1910.

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• I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, this something that is within you, this power within you that's greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you, it will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence. If you let it! Now that is what I know, for sure.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Mar 29, 2017

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• O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Desire, Might

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• War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

  George S. Patton

  War, Simple, Ruthlessness

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• Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

  Elizabeth Fry

  God, Religious, May

  Elizabeth Gurney Fry, Katharine Fry, Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.307

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• God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.

  Kay Arthur

  Thank You, Bible, God

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.117, WaterBrook

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• People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

  Marcus Aurelius

  People, Purpose, Impulse

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.110, Modern Library

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• If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Plant, Ifs

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• A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Littles, Great Men

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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