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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.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Quotes by Florence Griffith Joyner

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in...

Quotes by Florence Nightingale

Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

Quotes by Fleur East

My only path has always been to work hard.

Quotes by Fernando Torres

The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.

Quotes by Fei-Fei Li

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about...

Quotes by Fareed Zakaria

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Quotes by Famke Janssen

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Quotes by Famke Janssen

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.

Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path...

Quotes by Evel Knievel

I was going to college for broadcast journalism because I knew whatever career path I would take, I knew I wanted to be talking to as many people as possible and inspiring as many people as possible, particularly girls. When...

Quotes by Eva Gutowski

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and...

Quotes by Eva Moskowitz

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed...

Quotes by Eugene Jarecki

I can't say I have had a ton of Hollywood exposure, as strange as that sounds. But by pure happenstance, I trailed Javier Bardem on a red carpet at a film festival in Palm Springs years ago. He's one of...

Quotes by Ethan Peck

I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.

Quotes by Erskine Bowles

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Quotes by Erykah Badu

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.

Quotes by Ernest Lawrence

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

Quotes by Eric Betzig

Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

Quotes by Emmylou Harris

Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised...

Quotes by Emun Elliott

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.