Purpose And Direction Quotes:

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

- John F. Kennedy

source: John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Inspirational Courage, Inspiring Presidential

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

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Life, Happiness, Personality, Snoopy, What Is Happiness

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Wind, Vision, Doe, Mission And Vision, Leadership And Vision

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

- Walter Savage Landor

source: Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

topic: Men, Kwanzaa, Nails, Purpose And Direction

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

- Lowell Thomas

topic: Hands, Wind, Water, Hull, Purpose And Direction

Lucifer whispers that life's not fair and that if the gospel were true, we would never have problems or disappointments. ... The gospel isn't a guarantee against tribulation. That would be like a test with no questions. Rather, the gospel is a guide for maneuvering through the challenges of life with a sense of purpose and direction.

- Sheri L. Dew

source: Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

topic: Disappointment, Adversity, Challenges, Purpose And Direction

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

- Daniel Goleman

source: Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2016). “Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.125, Harvard Business Review Press

topic: Leadership, Passion, Enthusiasm, Contagion, Purpose And Direction

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

- Rudolf Steiner

topic: Responsibility, Imagination, Feelings, Purpose And Direction

Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.

- John Hodgman

topic: Pain, Blessed, People, Purpose And Direction

Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.

- F. David Mathews

topic: Country, Mean, Choices, Purpose And Direction, Tough Choices

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

- Robert Lowell

source: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

topic: Mean, Writing, Purpose, Purpose And Direction

Barack Obama is a threat to the continued existence of the United States, and he must be impeached, or resign. The real question is, what will we replace his bad policies with? Real patriots understand the need to think ahead, to create a meaningful purpose and direction as we rebuild our nation. We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a Post-Obama World.

- Kesha Rogers

topic: Meaningful, Real, Thinking, Purpose And Direction

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

topic: People, Purpose, World, Envisioning, Purpose And Direction

We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.

- Alex Salmond

topic: Moving, Opportunity, Equality, Purpose And Direction