Logo - Feel The Words

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.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

Quotes by Duane Chapman

I have the mindset of a mid-level guy or a minimum guy. My path here wasn't expected: my path wasn't that I was going to the NBA and making $16 million a year. So I identify more with those guys,...

Quotes by Draymond Green

The traditional path to making a name for yourself in our family is running for elective office, and I couldn't do that because, for one thing, all the really good offices were taken.

Quotes by Dorothy Bush Koch

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

Quotes by Donovan

A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted as someone who's following a different path, who's moving into a different mode.

Quotes by Donovan

The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead...

Quotes by Donovan

Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary.

Quotes by Donovan

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not...

Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'

Quotes by Donald Freed

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6...

Quotes by Donald Johanson

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with...

Quotes by Don Kardong

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

Quotes by Dominick Dunne

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

Quotes by Domhnall Gleeson

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

Quotes by Divyanka Tripathi

When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working...

Quotes by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's...

Quotes by Dianna Agron

I definitely had to pave my own path, which wasn't always the easiest thing to do.

Quotes by Diane Guerrero

I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with...

Quotes by Diane Ackerman

I didn't necessarily set out to be in musical theater, but that's where my path has taken me, and I've been loving and enjoying it ever since.

Quotes by Diana DeGarmo

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.