Path Not Taken Quotes

#1. I nod, thinking the whole concept of the path not taken is partly what has always troubled me.

Emily Giffin

#2. For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine - with tremendous humor and insight - the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.

Emma McLaughlin

#3. The path not taken, was not taken. No point wondering.

Philip Palmer

#4. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

Jen Lancaster

#6. And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn't just the inverse of who I am. It's an infinitely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life...

Blake Crouch

#7. Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back. Suddenly,

Kate Atkinson

#9. Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don't. Don't get me wrong: I have no regrets - if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn't want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken.

Nicola Sturgeon

#10. I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Kelly Miller

#11. It's hard to say. I don't want to limit myself by saying one thing or another. I couldn't have imagined the path that these past five years have taken me, so I guess I'll just give a safe answer and say that I hope to be elected as the president of the United States in 2016.

Skylar Astin

#12. You are my destiny. My path less taken. You are my future. My home. You are my life.

My words are written on my skin, my heart. They're in ink and memories. Love me and let me love you. Be with me until we turn our final page.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#13. It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.

Marcus Sakey

#14. A toast... to taking a chance, because that chance taken may be the very path that leads you to your happily ever after.

Tillie Cole

#15. Embrace the path your loved one's story has taken, and be part of the culture shift that acknowledges dying as part of living.

Carrie Chavez Hansen

#16. Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.

Ethan Watters

#17. If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

John Linder

#18. And then they walk away together, out of the allotted grooves of their afternoons and into the thickening shadows of evening, into the dim, liminal place where on path is taken, and another missed.

Laura Barnett

#19. I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

Ethan Hawke

#20. Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.

Mark Batterson

#21. The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world

Ahmed Yassin

#22. We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

Dean Koontz

#23. The greatest victories are therefore never without the shadow of loss; every path you take, no matter how lofty or effulgent, aches not only with the memory of what you left behind, but with the ghosts of all the untaken paths, now never to be taken, running parallel.

Paul Murray

#24. Charles did not know it, but in those brief poised seconds above the waiting sea, in that luminous evening silence broken only by the waves' quiet wash, the whole Victorian Age was lost. And I do not mean he had taken the wrong path.

John Fowles

#25. I'm a huge fan of Leonardo DiCaprio's career. I love the path that he's taken. He seems to be very conscious of exactly what kind of project he wants for the following part of his career.

Roberto Aguire

#26. He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

J.K. Rowling

#27. Regrets are born of paths never taken.

Michael Dell

#28. There's no way to know who I would have been if my life had taken a different path. Speculation is a waste of time. Looking back, I finally understand why they happened. I now believe that things happen for a reason. I am exactly where I'm supposed to be at this moment.

A.M. Madden

#29. Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.

Beau Biden

#30. I bet a lot of couples have wondered, if they'd met under different circumstances, perhaps they would've taken a different path and never ended up together. And in a way, you got that opportunity. You chose me twice. If that's not meant to be, then I don't know what is.

Jenn Bennett

#31. Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

Frederick Lenz

#32. The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.

Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

#33. Sometimes, you turn left on life's road; sometimes, you turn right. But once you've made that decision, you have to march ahead and push through anything in your way. Never waste time thinking about what it would have been like if you'd taken the other path.

Arthur T. Bradley

#34. They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

Joe Mantegna

#35. I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life ... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

Monica Denise Brown

#36. Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Chris Wooding

#37. Doing what you love, with those you love, is an adventurous type of success. The kind that can not be taken away, often discovered by those who have had much taken away, and saw it as an opportunity to re-access their path, and reset from the crucible of shared and beneficial dreams.

Tom Althouse

#38. ...I had this sudden feeling, like my life could have easily taken another path.

Walter Sorrells

#39. Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance.

Michael Gove

#40. I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

Eve Plumb

#41. I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.

Chris Robinson

#42. Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge right down the beaten path.

Charlaine Harris

#43. Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.

Amy Ruley

#44. When we lose a battle, we have to regroup and move forward again. Choose an alternate path if necessary. But if we dwell on every action we've taken, it will cripple us, and soon we'll take no action at all.

Mary E. Pearson

#45. I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes.

Elena Ferrante

#46. To take a stand for the future is to bring forth an opportunity not borne of the path we've taken in the past, but borne of a vision which we would create for ourselves.

Werner Erhard

#47. Drug cartels have taken the driver's seat, training our young
men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger
community watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades lead
our people towards the path of self annihilation

Oche Otorkpa

#48. Is that what I've been doing all these years? cutting my path though life? All the blood spilled and lives taken, just verses in a song?

Anthony Ryan

#49. She no longer recognized herself, she thought. She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back.

Kate Atkinson

#50. The only thing we'll get from trying to figure out where another path would have taken us are questions there are no answers to, and heatbreak that can't be healed. Regardless of how we got there, all any of us can do is move forward frome where we are.

Mia Sheridan

#51. Choose a master, for without him this journey is full of tribulations, fears, and dangers. With no escort, you would be lost on a road you would have already taken. Do not travel alone on the Path.

Rumi

#52. To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.

Richard J. Foster

#53. Push yourself to the brink of exhaustion into the crossroads of excitement and anxiety. Embrace the risks taken, and never acknowledge the shadows of doubt that stretch across your path. It is only there where you will discover a personal success that exceeds the pictures painted in your dreams

Carl Henegan

#54. They say vengeance taken will tear the heart and torment the conscious. If there's any truth to it, then I now know with certainty that the path I'm on is the right one.

Emily Thorne

#55. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights; and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

Laurence Sterne

#56. I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.

Georges Braque

#57. I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.

Liz Garbus

#58. Water can be reached straightaway from wave by following the direct path. If the way through the sea is taken, much more time is needed

Anonymous

#59. As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.

Jasper Johns

#60. The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others - or allow ourselves to be taken - with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#61. Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

Robin Morgan

#62. I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Nicholas Sparks

#63. I don't think that anything happens by coincidence ... No one is here by accident ... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason ...

James Redfield

#64. It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

Chen Shui-bian

#65. I'm exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us - comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken ... If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic

Stephenie Meyer

#66. Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#67. If you don't like the path your life has taken, choose another.

Robert G. DeMers

#68. If I'd known I should meet a damn bear, Jamie said, grunting as he lifted another stone into place, I would have taken another path.

Diana Gabaldon