Quotes about Direction
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
— Thomas a Kempis
A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.
— Thomas a Kempis
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
No more does one who is on a journey have to think at every step of his destination.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
— Origen
people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Logotherapy conceives of conscience as a prompter which, if need be, indicates the direction in which we have to move in a given life situation. In order to carry out such a task, conscience must apply a measuring stick to the situation one is confronted with, and this situation has to be evaluated in the light of a set of criteria, in the light of a hierarchy of values
— Viktor E. Frankl
People have enough to live by but nothing to live for.
— Viktor E. Frankl
It was Kierkegaard who told the wise parable that the door to happiness always opens 'outwards', which means it closes itself precisely against the person who tries to push the door to happiness 'inwards', so to speak.
— Viktor E. Frankl
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
— Lao Tzu
There's light enough for wot I've got to do.
— Charles Dickens