Guidance Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old guidance quotes, guidance sayings, and guidance proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety. Caroline Myss
Wise guidance never violates people's free will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their innate right to their own free will. Paramahansa Yogananda
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. Shakti Gawain
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei
If you allow yourself to expect guidance, guidance will show up. Richard Bartlett
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance almost any sort of spiritual guidance. Carl Jung
People seek guidance of him who is master of himself. James Allen
The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day. Irving Stone
Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems. It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas, flowing through dreams and illuminations. Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however, it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it. Caroline Myss
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. Thomas H. Huxley
If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance. Gloria Steinem
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. Anne Sullivan
Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still. Maxwell Maltz
Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual. Erol Alkan
Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic. Gerald Jampolsky
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. Henry Miller
Unless virtue guides us, our choice must be wrong. William Penn
True guidance is like a small torch in a dark forest.It doesn't show everything once.But gives enough light for the next step to be safe. Swami Vivekanand
A soul with purpose found is the light by which the world is guided. Ian Paul Marshall
We are blessed with guidance and it is within our power to find ways to both express and listen to this wisdom. The choice is ours. Susan Barbara Apollon
All you need to do to receive guidance is to ask for it and then listen. Sanaya Roman
Guidance happens when we create the space in our minds to allow our angels to speak up. Set your ego aside and listen! Catherine Carrigan
People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it. Howard Schultz
Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience. Ibn Taymiyyah
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen
We must be guided by faith. If we are guided by fear we lock ourselves and our expansion. Yogi Bhajan
The simplest kind of guidance critique comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort. Barbara Brennan
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Benjamin Franklin
It's advice, not a commandment. Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice. Richelle E. Goodrich
Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience. Muhammad Abduh
Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best. Jimmy Johnson
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Harry Day
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance. Bear Grylls
When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion. Dalai Lama
God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us. David Jeremiah
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House. Donald Rumsfeld
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all. Dora Russell
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Douglas Bader
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Gautama Buddha
Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad. Herbert Spencer
A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance. Horace Bushnell
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. James Allen
Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error. Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. John Wooden
It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being. Joseph Wood Krutch
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence. Juvenal
Men give advice. God gives guidance. Leonard Ravenhill
A blocked path also offers guidance. Mason Cooley
A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still. Maxwell Maltz
Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. All you need to do is heed the voice. Neale Donald Walsch
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty. Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half. Samuel Gridley Howe
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. Shakti Gawain
Homelife, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems. Spencer W. Kimball
Let your heart guide you, it whispers so listen closely. Walt Disney
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future. William Kingdon Clifford
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction. Xunzi
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you. Zig Ziglar
People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance. Douglas Hurd