Omar N. Bradley Quotes

It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Give light and people will find the way.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.

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.

Stick to your true north - build greatness for the long term.

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

I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

A guru is like a live road map. If you want to walk uncharted terrain, I think it is sensible to walk with a road map.

Keep going. Grind for what you want. Pray. Listen to your mama.

Of course I have said, till I am blue in the face - people don't lack goals, passion, grit, or drive - they lack leadership!

Everyone is just as committed and focused as they were the first season.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.

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

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.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.