Where You Are Going Quotes - Page 2

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  Eddie Cantor

  Life, Missing You, Retirement

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• Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.

  Napoleon Hill

  Planning, Where You Are

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.309, Penguin

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• It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

  Isocrates

  Depression, Wisdom, Mistake

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• If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Dream, Heart, Ambition

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• Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

  Wayne Dyer

  Knowing Who You Are, Purpose, Where You Are

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• If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

  Mason Cooley

  Air, Gone, Noses

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• In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Hard Work, America, Doe

  Text: Condoleezza Rice at the Republican National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. August 01, 2000.

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• Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

  Nikita Koloff

  Journey, Race, Way

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• When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with a sense of wonder, of not knowing where you are going or how you will travel. The initial phase of alchemy is called the nigredo-it's the phase of darkness, when it's "blacker than black." You feel this when you start something new-go off to college, start a new job, travel to a foreign land, or end a relationship that is not working.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Jobs, Believe, Journey

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

  Denis Waitley

  Wall, Motivation, Real

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• If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

  Joan Miro

  Where You Are, Notion, Ifs

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• Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

  Jeff Bezos

  Decision, Important, Energy

  "I Asked Jeff Bezos The Tough Questions - No Profits, The Book Controversies, The Phone Flop - And He Showed Why Amazon Is Such A Huge Success". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2014.

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• Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

  Frank Gehry

  Fun, Creativity, Grandmother

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• I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

  Paul Simon

  Fun, Writing, Path

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.

  Sara Blakely

  Motivational, Powerful, Moving

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• The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.

  Esther Hicks

  Where You Are, Dominant

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• I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

  Piper Perabo

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

  William Stafford

  Getting Lost, Madness, Found

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• Determine where you are going and how you will get there will become obvious.

  Marshall Sylver

  Where You Are, Obvious, Determine

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• Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad temptation will set in.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Temptation, Needs, Where You Are

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 24, 2015

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• Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

  Lawrence Summers

  Jet Planes, Kind, Problem

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• Don't be fearful about the journey ahead; don't worry about where you are going or how you are going to get there. If you believe in the first person of the Trinity, God the Father, also believe in the second person of the Trinity, the one who came as the Light of the World, not only to die for people, but to light the way... This one, Jesus Christ, is himself the Light and will guide your footsteps along the way.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  Edith Schaeffer (2014). “A Way of Seeing”, p.174, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13

  Sheri L. Dew

  Where You Are, Invites, Knows

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• The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Pain, Moving, Knowing

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