Path Quotes

• Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Opinion
  • Greek
  • Accounts

• I'm very ambitious. I always want more after I get something I've dreamed about, so every day, I have a new target and a new path to follow. That's pretty much my law in life.

  

  Thalía
  • Life
  • Law
  • Target

• It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Destiny

• I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • Music
  • True

• I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Game
  • Career
  • Design

• Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Different
  • Important
  • Writing

• We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

  

  Josefina Vazquez Mota
  • Real
  • Party
  • Practice

• Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Work
  • May
  • Car

• I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.

  

  David Hoffman
  • Real
  • Strong
  • City

• Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

  

  Franz Boas
  • Remember
  • History
  • Single

• The path that leads from the persona to the self, from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, … or illusory needs and real needs.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Real
  • True
  • Free

• I haven't let anybody take me off my path or deter me in any way. It's about seeing an opportunity and taking it.

  

  Ashley Thomas
  • Opportunity
  • Path

• My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence; but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid colouring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn's place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I'll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• It's kind of hard get outside of your own frame of reference. To one degree or another, we all go through our breakdowns and we can recognize our lives as a path to awakening or not. We can take our breakdowns as a way to sensitize us or as an excuse to blind and dull ourselves.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Blind
  • Degree
  • Frame

• When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Time
  • Light
  • Dark

• The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competition and dustups, and I wish I did, but I don't. But once you have started down a path, then I think you have to move forward. You can't give up.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Wish

• One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Journey
  • Curiosity
  • Greed

• No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • Earth
  • Travel
  • Path

• Those whose beginning of the path is illuminated will find the end of their path illuminated.

  

  Nuh Ha Mim Keller
  • End
  • Find
  • Illuminated

• Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it's ok as long as you know what you want and you're going towards that. Accept it's going to be a different path than you thought in the first place.

  

  Emily Meade
  • Different
  • Long
  • Career

• When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Position

• In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Design
  • Smart
  • Marketing

• Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don't let skeptics distract you from your path.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Path

• My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

  

  Denise Juneau
  • Success
  • Parents
  • Education

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