Top 1200 Purpose And Direction Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

To achieve great goals, you all have to walk in the same direction.

I still can't believe I acted in Ram Gopal Varma's direction.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it.

Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great.

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

I think that the only choice that we have in life is whether we align ourselves with God or not. I think everything else is all taken care of for us. You know? If you choose to align with your source, with your spirit, then your life will go in a certain direction. If you choose to align yourself with your ego, and your false self, and the belief that who you are is what you accomplish and what other people think of you and what you accumulate, if you just go that route - the outer route, if you will, the outer path - your life will go in a different direction.

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

On photo shoots I've always had to do that - take direction and whatnot.

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction.

To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.

From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it!

The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

There are so many stupid things that steal that purpose from us. The stupid things that you believe a lie that we ‘re not as important as we really are. That our life isn’t as important as it really is. It’s important to the people that you love, it’s important to the people that you will love in the future, it’s important to the world around you and it’s so important that you fulfill the purpose that only you can fulfill the way that you can fulfill that.

A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.

Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.

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Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

It takes bold direction and leadership to heal a divided nation.

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

I'm someone who needs goals and direction, and fighting provided that for me.

In many ways Roy Keane is bigger than One Direction.

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

The heart is the place where our life gets its direction.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

I tend to change research direction every few years or so.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.

My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.

The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.

Going in the wrong direction but making really good time

The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.

I want to take a more international direction with my career.

There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.

Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.