Guides Quotes - Page 5

• Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

  Daniel Goleman

  Inspirational, Passion, Thinking

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.28, Bantam

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• In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Principles, Steps

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.190, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Honor

  Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). “The banquet (also known as The symposium)”

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• Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

  Ken Blanchard

  Journey, Knowing Who You Are, Vision

  Ken Blanchard, Colleen Barrett (2013). “Learn How to Lead and Succeed (Collection)”, p.164, FT Press

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• Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in relation to this stress is ultimately to help the child learn to manage his or her own stress wisely. In accomplishing this, the teacher mentors higher academic learning by removing distracting stress, and teaches valuable life-survival skills.

  Michael Gurian

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

  Michael Gurian (2010). “Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents: Revised 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.152, John Wiley & Sons

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• To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Air

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

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• Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Despair, Tongue, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.254, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

  John Updike

  Heart, Guidance, Command

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• Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Trust, Feelings, Growth

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• It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Passion, Practice

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• From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

  Henri Matisse

  Portraits, Faces, Firsts

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• I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

  Horace Mann

  Philosophy, Phrenology, Looks

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• Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Meat Eating, Evil

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• Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Soul

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• Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose—to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you.

  David Filo

  Ideas, Years, May

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• The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.

  Dennis Lindley

  Needs, World, Probability

  "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 66), 2006.

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• A good model guides your thinking, a bad one warps it.

  Brian Marick

  Thinking, Warp, Models

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• Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the Church. She “taught that individual women could receive inspiration to guide them in their personal lives, their families, and their Church responsibilities. She said: ‘Tell the sisters to go forth and discharge their duties, in humility and faithfulness and the Spirit of God will rest upon them and they will be blest in their labors. Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.’

  Eliza R. Snow

  Inspiration, Humility, Responsibility

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• When you have a strong conviction, you have a duty not to tell people what they want. At least represent yourself and say: ‘Yo, this is what I’m into, and this is what I’m seeing in the world. Let me take your hand and guide you through it, so you can see through my eyes

  Eddie Huang

  Strong, Eye, Hands

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• We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Home, His Love, Loving God

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• The gods sustain and guide all their works.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• If you believe that there's a being superior to yourself and that will guide you, strengthen you that helps a lot but, you know, you just have to stay the course. You just got to stay in there. You cannot be waffling or taking a poll to see what people think. You have to do what you think is right.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

  William Wordsworth

  Daughter, Art, Light

  'Ode to Duty' (1807)

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• But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Fighting, Artist

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.151, Stanford University Press

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