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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.

There are plenty of easy things that you can do from the comfort of your own home to get you started on the path of giving back.

Quotes by Jenna Morasca

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

Quotes by Jenna Dewan

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

Quotes by Jenna Dewan

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

Quotes by Jen Lancaster

I honestly didn't always want kids - for a very long time, it just wasn't a path I saw myself on. I wasn't even sure I wanted to get married!

Quotes by Jedediah Bila

I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.

Quotes by Jay Ellis

I'd change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That's just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.

Quotes by Jason Clarke

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.

Quotes by Jason Derulo

I think that by going on the path that I am, my destiny will just come to me.

Quotes by Jason Derulo

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is...

Quotes by Jane Lynch

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the...

Quotes by Jane Hirshfield

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

Quotes by Jane Campion

When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there's no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of...

Quotes by Jamie Johnson

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

Quotes by Jamie Lee Curtis

I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because when I came out of theater school I took myself way too seriously, so it's kind of ironic...

Quotes by James Roday

Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

Quotes by James Nesbitt

There's kind of a limitless amount of things I want to do, and when the path seems to open, that's when I try to do a thing.

Quotes by James Murphy

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

Quotes by James D. Watson

Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.

Quotes by Jake Owen

It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.

Quotes by Jackie Evancho

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.