Directionless Quotes

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel. These generals don’t even know where the tunnel is.

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

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

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of end up in space, just floating around.

If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.

If you have no destination, you'll never get there.

The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.