William Wordsworth Quotes

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

I just want to give advice to everyone to go the right way. It is important for me. The most important thing is to listen to your family.

He has learned that it is best to follow the light.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.

There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.

He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place while all other stars bow towards it.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

To be a leader, regardless of what party you're in, is to tell your followers what lines not to cross.

Ours is the responsibility to keep our light bright for others to see and follow.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.