I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
— Alice Paul
Valuable Right Direction quotations
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.
Of the people, by the people, for the people.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.
I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction.
When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
I DECLARE that God has a great plan for my life.
He is directing my steps. And even though I may not always understand how, I know my situation is not a surprise to God. He will work out every detail to my advantage. In His perfect timing, everything will turn out right. This is my declaration.
I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well.
I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.
Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult.
It will always guide you in the right direction.
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Good news is only really good to those directly involved.
Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news makes them feel better. If not better, certainly gooder. If one cannot gain recognition for anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is "good", which in most case equates with "right".
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.
Today we can be sure we are heading into the right direction.
We managed to put the round back on track, after a long hibernation. But we are not there yet.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.
Even a kick in the ass is good when you're facing the right direction.
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy.
I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
The interesting thing is that there are so few important decisions.
You don't have to go in the "right" direction. You don't have to enter the "right" business. What you have to do is have made a decision as to what you're going to do and then you just have to figure out how to succeed at it.
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.
Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses;
they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.
I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.
100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful;
now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.