Steep Path Quotes

#1. The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

Andre Gide

#2. Virtue can have naught to do with ease ... It craves a steep and thorny path.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.

William Shakespeare

#5. Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

Dennis Rodman

#6. As he climbed the steep path to the rocky point where the

Nora Roberts

#7. There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail ... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.

Hal Elrod

#8. 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

#9. My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

Gabrielle Giffords

#10. Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Ben Stein

#11. I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

J. Carter Brown

#12. It is difficult for a man laden with riches to climb the steep path, that leads to bliss

Anonymous

#13. We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat.

Frances Mayes

#14. Martin Bashir persuaded me to trust him, that his would be an honest and fair portrayal of my life and told me that he was the man that turned Dianas life around.

Michael Jackson

#15. I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

Frank Shorter

#16. We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.

Yoko Ono

#17. [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville

#18. Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

Lewis Thomas

#19. Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn't particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

Seth Godin

#20. Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Horace

#21. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Heinrich Heine

#22. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.

Lev Grossman

#23. No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

Kim Edwards

#24. There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.

Swami Vivekananda