Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

We all need a little something to believe in.

There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.

I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could become a writer. I had a goal. And every day when I got up, there was a reason.

Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.

Without a vision the people perish.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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.

I believe if we have something that we love to do, that can save our lives. That can get us through.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

If you get lost, you can always be found.

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.

I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.