Quotes About Following Your Own Path

#1. I often wonder if I have fulfilled my purpose. I believe the key to living life to the fullest is to always be recognizing opportunities and following your own path. To enjoy every minute, whether it's writing a novel, giving a speech, or petting the kitties, it's your life.

David Mezzapelle

#2. As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off.
Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance.
Having a sense of humor saves you.

Joseph Campbell

#3. Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack ... and nourished along the way.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#4. If you're always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.

Julian Pencilliah

#5. The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

Steve Hagen

#6. Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

Seth Godin

#7. The spiritual path means making a path rather than following one.

Mark Epstein

#8. 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

#9. Condemn me if you choose I do that myself, but condemn me , and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. She who follows another's course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.

John Kramer

#11. The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.

James Hetfield

#12. If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#13. When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.

Paulo Coelho

#15. Only those who commit to following their own artistic path can look back and see this issue in clear perspective: the real question about acceptance is not whether your work will be viewed as art, but whether it will be viewed as your art. APPROVAL

David Bayles

#16. To reprise language from the previous chapter, the solution isn't algorithmic (following a set path) but heuristic (breaking from the path to discover a novel strategy).

Daniel H. Pink

#17. The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

Eartha Kitt

#18. You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm.

Utah Phillips

#20. Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself! Nevertheless,

Hermann Hesse

#21. So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

Kevin Mitnick

#22. No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

Robert Kiyosaki

#23. Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

Timothy Keller

#24. The greatest realisation in one's life is this: You don't have to follow others! Creating your own path is creating a new path for the world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

Gus Van Sant

#26. Ever since the development of the spine, the individual had become paramount, the group disregarded. Ghiselle was only following the downhill path of her species.

Tom Perrotta

#27. The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts, ...

Pope Francis

#28. It is your blessing, the path God has chosen for you here on Earth. Whenever a man does that which gives him enthusiasm, he is following his Legend. However, not everyone has the courage to face up to his own dreams.

Paulo Coelho

#29. If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#30. Impartial, compassionate, brave, and understanding ... these are the traits that come with putting the Noble Eightfold Path into practice. By following this path, anyone can become the kind of leader the Buddha hoped to see - a leader of peace.

Victoria Stoklasa

#31. A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace

Martin Luther King Jr.

#33. Even the Son of God trod this path of martyrdom for the sins of all mankind, and all who suffer in a similar manner are simply following in his very steps, identifying with his sorrow over a lost world that he willingly died for.

Greg Gordon

#34. I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

Mindy Grossman

#35. Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species' best defense systems?

Jonathan Talat Phillips

#36. Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Paulo Coelho

#37. Sometimes, when there's too much traffic clogging up the road, you need to take a different route. But following the same path as everyone else can stall your progress in reaching your investment goals too.

Mark Mobius

#38. If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Caitlin Flanagan

#39. No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Christopher Hitchens

#40. Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

Cameron Crowe

#41. The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#42. True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.

Idries Shah

#44. Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#45. Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.

Pope Francis

#46. Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

Bob Proctor

#47. What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don't all have the courage to confront our own dream.

Paulo Coelho

#48. Life is nothing if not a random motion of coincidences and quirks of chance; it never goes as planned or as foretold; frequently one gains happiness from being obliged to follow an unchosen path or misery from following a chosen one.

Louis De Bernieres

#49. The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by former leaders of the party for the development of the country and its brighter future.

Sonia Gandhi

#50. We can't all succeed following the same path as successful men followed. Each person has it's own destiny. You might get stuck at any stage if it's not your way but you'll fly away if it's yours. Follow your mind and take serious anything you do.

Amen Muffler

#51. I don't believe in following a path set by others. You have to create a path for yourself.

Lyrics Born

#52. The candle inside will eventually burn out; the question is: did it light the path for those following us?

Orrin Woodward

#53. I'm for the DREAM Act. It makes so much sense. Following the implementation of the DREAM Act, we'll have a case study we can point to where we can say that we provided a path to citizenship or legal involvement in the community for these young immigrants, and the sky didn't fall.

Beto O'Rourke

#54. I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

Michael Jackson

#55. 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

#56. By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."

Gaston Bachelard