Guidance Quotes

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

Thomas Carruthers

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."

Alexandra K. Trenfor

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

Anne Sullivan

"A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils."

Ever Garrison

"I am not a teacher; only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as of you."

"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller."

John Milton

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Anne Frank

"The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering."

Benjamin Spock

"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."

Terence

"Life doesn't come with an instruction book—that's why we have fathers."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“You yourself must strive; the Buddhas only point the way.”

"A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."

“Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, lead Thou me on!”

John Henry Newman

“My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path.”

“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”

Brad Henry