Direction Quotes

"Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."

"Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! / A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time."

"It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: "THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE." Loosely translated, this means, "You're on your own, Bernice."

"I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea."

"Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful."

"Herd pressure is to be judged by two things : first, its intensity, and second, its direction"

"Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither."

"The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams."

"Each beat guides me in Your direction."

"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."

"For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law"

"An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod"

"It looks good. We're pretty excited. We've got this thing going in the right direction."

"There's considerable nervousness about the direction of interest rates. After having such a strong run earlier, markets need some time to catch their breath."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction"

"Normally there are at least some questions where the students come from a direction that's pretty different from that of the Journal readers, and you'll notice that's not really true here."

"We hope to talk to our group, and see what direction they want to go, ... Then we will let Mr. Marra speak and we know he will have some good information."