Path Quotes - page 5

I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path. (Theodore von Kármán)
Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path. View quote
Robert Jordan
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. View quote
Syd Barrett
Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape. View quote
Norbert Wiener
Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
One should not think, "My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false." God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions. View quote
Ramakrishna
If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path. View quote
Ramakrishna
Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens. (Jigoro Kano)
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk. View quote
Emil Cioran
All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ["ifraat", or doing something to excess] and conservatism ["tafreet", or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path. View quote
Mohammed Omar
I did not come to power to divide Somali but to unite them, and I will never deviate from this path. I shall respect a Somali individual as long as he deserves respect, but if he turns away from the correct path, then that is not my business. View quote
Siad Barre
I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely. View quote
Kim Novak
If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life. View quote
Sarah McLachlan
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him. View quote
P. L. Travers
The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven. View quote
Catherine of Siena
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. View quote
Amy Tan
And sometimes when I am weary, When the path is thorny and Wild, I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight, Back to the eyes that smiled. And pray that a wreath like a rainbow May slip from the beautiful past, And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love And keep me, and hold me fast. View quote
Voltairine de Cleyre
Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them. (Wafa Sultan)
Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. View quote
Antonio Machado
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man. View quote
Margaret Fuller
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself. View quote
Hermann Hesse
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. View quote
Hermann Hesse