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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.

When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward,...

Quotes by Bindi Irwin

We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?

Quotes by Billy Beane

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

Quotes by Bill Mumy

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his...

Quotes by Bill Kristol

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right...

Quotes by Bill Kristol

I fully recognize we need to improve the path to citizenship, just as we need to value the hard work of folks who become American citizens legally.

Quotes by Bill Flores

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Quotes by Bill Bradley

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We...

Quotes by Bharati Mukherjee

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.

Quotes by Betty Hill

I have two little girls. Who knows what they want to do in the future? But if they want to be wrestlers someday and I helped forge a path for them be more successful than it was all worth it.

Quotes by Beth Phoenix

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

Quotes by Bernard Sumner

I would say that we all - in whatever world we're in, whatever your occupation is, we all have a path to walk. We all have struggles.

Quotes by Benjamin Watson

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

Quotes by Benjamin F. Wade

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Quotes by Ben Sweetland

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

Quotes by Ben Lindsey

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's...

Quotes by Ben Mezrich

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets...

Quotes by Ben Domenech

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Quotes by bell hooks

If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.

Quotes by Ben Askren

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

Quotes by Baz Luhrmann

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.