29 Killer Quotes About Life Direction: A Traveler’s Collection

You arrive at a crossroads. The path to your left looks worn and easy to travel. To your right, it’s rocky with overgrown thorns and tangled vines. But something inside you screams “adventure”.

Which way do you turn?

In life, we’re faced with tough decisions like this often.

Which direction is best for you right now? Do you strategize and take the easy road to gain momentum, then circle back and take the other when it’s time? Or do you follow your insticts?

The answer is not always obvious, but that’s part of what makes life fun and interesting.

I’ve collected my favorite quotes about life direction that can help shed some light during times like these.

As I’ve found, sometimes all we need is a little hint or reminder to help push us off in the right direction.

Quotes About Life Direction

You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.

Nassim Taleb

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

Sebastian Faulks

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.

I don’t much care where–

Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.

Lewis Carroll

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Emma Stone

If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there.

Lewis Carroll

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

There will always be setbacks. What you are experiencing is a detour. It’s not the end of the road.

Oprah Winfrey

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Zig Ziglar

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Euripides

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Drake

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Carl Rogers

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Sydney J. Harris

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

Melody Beattie

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Warren Buffett

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.

Douglas Macarthur

Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato

Energy can’t be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

Keanu Reeves

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

Your direction is more important than your speed.

Richard L. Evans

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Lao Tzu

Parting Words

I hope you’ve stumbled across a valuable hint hidden within this collection of phrases. For me, Nassim Taleb’s reminder always seems to add solace when my next step isn’t obvious:

“You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.”

The idea that experiementation can help with clarity is comforting. We may lose our way, we may feel confused, we may make mistakes. But each mistep gives us more information and helps make the path clearer.

What other quotes about life direction would you add to the list? Let me know!

You might also enjoy these related quote collections:

• Quotes About Quitting Your Job
• Quotes About Finding Yourself
• Quotes About Social Conditioning
• Quotes About Taking Risks
• Quotes About Being Authentic

Originally Published: September 3, 2019