Alone

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
.................................. Cyrano de Bergerac

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
...............................Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

..............................Henry David Thoreau

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
....................................Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
..................................Blaise Pascal

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
.............................Jean-Paul Sartre

To lead people walk behind them.
....................Lao Tzu

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
.........................Plato

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
.........................Friedrich Nietzsche

Direction

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


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. 
Live the life you have imagined. 
............................Henry David Thoreau


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


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


Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. 
....................Antoine de Saint-Exupery


The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction. 
..............................Nicolaus Copernicus