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 | I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 18 likes |
 | We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 15 likes |
 | If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 13 likes |
 | The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 10 likes |
 | Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 9 likes |
 | If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 6 likes |
 | One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 5 likes |
| He who moves not forward, goes backward. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 5 likes |
 | I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving – we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 4 likes |
 | When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 4 likes |
 | Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 4 likes |
 | To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 4 likes |
 | You never go so far as when you don't know where you are going. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 4 likes |
 | Everyone I meet wants to give me directions, but I'm not lost. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist 4 likes |
 | You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 4 likes |
 | It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 3 likes |
 | Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | Conscience is a man’s compass. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
 | You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 2 likes |
 | I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 2 likes |
 | Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 2 likes |
 | Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 2 likes |
 | Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 2 likes |
 | Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 2 likes |
 | Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
| When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care. |
 | It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. |
 | The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. |
 | If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. |
 | Every step is a first step if it’s a step in the right direction. |
 | The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. |
 | We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once. |
 | Second star to the right and straight on till morning. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer ‐ Peter Pan |
 | Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | My methods of navigation have their advantage. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. |
 | The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there. |
 | It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. |
Funny Quotes
 | You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 4 likes |
 | Can we actually know the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Τις είναι θέλεις σαυτώ πρώτον ειπέ. Είθ’ ούτως ποίει ά ποιείς. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 4 likes |
 | You will never make the crab walk straight. Ούποτε ποτε ποιήσεις τον καρκίνον ορθά βαδίζειν. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Peace 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | I was going to the worst place in the world, and I didn't even know it yet. — from the film Apocalypse Now (1979) 5 likes |
 | There it is, Wendy; second star to the right and straight on till morning. — from the film Peter Pan 4 likes |
 | To Infinity and Beyond! — from the film Toy Story (1995) 2 likes |
