Path Quotations

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life...and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart, right from the start, go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property they have not succeeded, but they continue on the path of destruction of the family and the nation.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.

If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

Time really has gone by fast. I don’t know if your path is pre-written or what, but it’s crazy how one thing just leads to another.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.

Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

Everyone has their own path and you cant judge.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

I would love to be like Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez. They were catapulted into stardom when they were so young - like I was - and they still haven't gone down the wrong path and I hope neither or them will. I find that really inspiring.

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

There are many paths but only one journey.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.

I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.