Quotes About Shortcuts In Life

#1. Wisdom doesn't come easily or without a cost; in fact, wisdom often costs us dearly. Your wisdom will run about as deep as the pain that has cut you. There are very few shortcuts in life, if any.

Bryant McGill

#2. There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Frank Leahy

#3. If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

Michael Jordan

#4. Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Dean Inge

#5. There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.

Ben Hogan

#6. Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?

Suzanne Palmieri

#7. There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

William Wilberforce

#8. In life there are no short cuts; process is still the best way to get ahead.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#9. There are not enough books here. The sight of the bare shelves shames me. What have I done?

Linda Grant

#10. Short cuts make long delays.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Crying makes problems seem longer, and laughing makes problems seem shorter. Therefore in life if you cannot find a way out of your problems just take a short cut through them: that shortcut is
laughter.

Moffat Machingura

#12. The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

Thomas Merton

#13. There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life.

Seth Adam Smith

#14. You don't always get the waterfall shortcut in Mario Kart. That's life.

Jack Barakat

#15. I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life - and,
sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every
painful inch of it - no shortcuts and no anesthesia.

Michele Bardsley

#16. Human beings are not made to take shortcuts, ... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.

David Rotenberg

#17. Success isn't something you have, it's something you do. Don't be fooled into taking shortcuts, they always lead to a dead-end. Instead, establish a goal, make a plan, and take purposeful action. Those who experience success are those who live it; those who earn it.

Steve Maraboli

#18. Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

Sandra Lee

#19. Life is like a road.
With turnings and shortcuts.
Then one day ...
just ends.

Myself

#20. God is at work, even in our storms.

Karen Kingsbury

#21. I love ponytails. I'm a wash-and-go girl.

Britney Spears

#22. The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!

Rhonda Byrne

#23. The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

Mark Cuban

#24. Whenever new shorts cuts open the old roads get freer

Saahil Prem

#25. I love you but
don't know what to
do.

Charles Bukowski

#26. If you chose to go into someone else's reality, you had to be willing to walk. There were no shortcuts.

Alice Sebold

#27. The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.

Daniel H. Pink

#28. Awakening is natural,delusion is not

Gautama Buddha

#29. Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

Anne Lamott

#30. Q. What's the secret shortcut to being succesful in life?
A. Stop looking for shortcuts.

Jose N. Harris

#31. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.

Suzy Kassem

#32. I knew there would be no shortcuts for me in life-we didn't have money or access to people of power. I knew, if I was going to have any success, it would be a result of getting educated and working hard-as hard or harder than my parents did.

Megyn Kelly

#33. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.

Susan Wells Bennett

#34. There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Harrison Salisbury