Quotes about Navigation
The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.
— Stephen Covey
We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realize we're in the wrong jungle.
— Stephen Covey
It's the set of the sail, and not the gale that determines the way they go.
— Eugene Peterson
Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.
— Eugene Peterson
We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who shall distinguish between the law by which a brook finds its river, the instinct by which a bird performs its migrations, and the knowledge by which a man steers his ship round the globe? The globe is the richer for the variety of its inhabitants.
— Henry David Thoreau
Not till we are completely lost or turned around, do we begin to find ourselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars!
— Herman Melville
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
— Lewis Carroll
While walking through a dark season, if we attempt to navigate our lives by what we feel, we will run aground onto the rocks. We must navigate by what we
— Sheila Walsh
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.
— George Eliot
Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.
— Samuel Rutherford