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Path Quotes

On choosing a path and sticking with it.

This path quotes collection includes the pull between a conventional career and a riskier calling, plus quieter reflections on walking and thinking. See our Down quotes for related themes.

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.

Quotes by Peter Orszag

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that...

Quotes by Peter Garrett

Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I...

Quotes by Peter Facinelli

I have great respect for Brecht, but his path is not mine.

Quotes by Peter Brook

When I was in fifth grade - so, about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark. And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn't even understand what they were talking about,...

Quotes by Pete Docter

I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And I figure if a farmer's daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything...

Quotes by Peggy Whitson

I've always been attracted to music, and women like Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Tina Turner showed the path, in a way. They're all tough women but not afraid to be vulnerable. They made me feel someone...

Quotes by Pearl Mackie

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual...

Quotes by Paul Twitchell

The anti-hero walks the morally gray path and constantly flirts with redemption, and that flirtation is just a blast to write.

Quotes by Paul S. Kemp

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

Quotes by Paul R. Ehrlich

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.

Quotes by Paul Mooney

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Quotes by Paul Hawken

So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is...

Quotes by Paul Davies

I was writing a script about the Joker menacing a regular person who had strayed into his path, and I needed to give him a gang of henchmen to work with him. The idea occurred to me, let's put in...

Quotes by Paul Dini

In those times when a kid first tries to express themselves creatively, it sets them on a different path. Sometimes, that path can be really wonderful and can lead to a career doing some of the things you love. I...

Quotes by Paul Dini

I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.

Quotes by Pattie Boyd

I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,' or go back to an old, beaten path - do some smaller things that I haven't done in 15 or 20 years....

Quotes by Patty Griffin

Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

Quotes by Parker Posey

A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.

Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about choosing an unconventional path?
Yes - one quote describes wrestling with the decision to start Teach For America, mentioning a voice telling them "to take a more normal path" instead. It's a nice reminder that meaningful choices often come with self-doubt.
Is there a quote about clean energy or the future?
Yes - one quote argues, "You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future."
Is there a quote about walking a path and reflecting inward?
Yes, one quote describes "walking down a garden path" while looking at trees and starting to "look at them through your inner eye" - a peaceful image of reflection. For more introspective lines, see our Me collection.
Is there a quote connecting path to creativity or jazz?
Yes, one quote uses "path" as part of a bigger idea about the creative process, describing how it "intersects every vein and tributary, avenue, path, that everyone's living."
Where can I find more quotes about life direction and choices?
For more on charting your own way through life, browse our Life collection, or explore Down and Never for related themes.

Other lines connect path to bigger ideas like clean energy and creative process, themes also found in our Life and Me quotes.