Top 100 The Only Road Quotes
#1. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
Patricia Sampson
#2. We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.
Nelson Mandela
#3. Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
Kim Dae-jung
#4. Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.
Louis C.K.
#7. Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.
Lisa Wingate
#8. We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion ... To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#9. Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.
Dimitrije Tucovic
#10. To feel pure joy, the road of peace is the only road we should walk.
Debasish Mridha
#11. The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.
Louis C.K.
#12. Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
Peter Kreeft
#13. The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
Golda Meir
#14. If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#15. They think the only road is where they're heading, but you and I were meant to sail upon the sea.
Heather Dale
#16. The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
William Joyce
#17. The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth travelling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.
Philip Zaleski
#19. Without Warning
Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known, and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you.
Ellen Hopkins
#20. Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.
Geoffrey Wood
#21. For me, writing something down was the only road out.
Anne Tyler
#23. Love, like energy, never dies. You lose people only in the moment. But time is a long road that circles back. At some point the missing turns into love and returns.
M.J. Rose
#25. Kicking the proverbial can down the road only increases the size of the can.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. All men think they're great kissers. Just like you think you're the only decent driver on the road."
"Maybe, but I am. Amazing kisser. Dangerously amazing. Your panties would, like, disintegrate, I'm such an awesome kisser.
Meg Maguire
#27. Who knows where the road will lead us
Only a fool would say,
But if you let me love you
I'm sure to love you all the way.
Frank Sinatra
#28. There had only ever been two roads home: there was the long road and there was the sea road, and tonight I would take the sea road.
Clara Winter
#29. There was only one road back to L.A. - U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, and straight on into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity.
Hunter S. Thompson
#30. The road does seem long before you embark on the journey,
That's why I think the most difficult part is to start.
But when you are in motion, and steps taken become many,
Nothing can stop you; that's only if you guard your heart.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#31. Moments ... there are always moments where a decision has to be made. In mortal life there is always a choice. One road or another? The ultimate choose your own adventure story. In the clans, there is only one option, and that is to do whatever your clan's oracle tells you to do.
Kim Cormack
#32. Let me tell you something that I learned from my youth, from a sage called the Road Runner. You can walk off a cliff and the air will hold you. Only, don't look down.
Erin Bow
#33. I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to work. The kind of success that's happened to me maybe only happens to one comedian every twenty years and so I'm on the road constantly.
Larry The Cable Guy
#34. Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?
Lewis Foreman Day
#35. Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.
Michael Paterniti
#36. But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished ... and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
James Taylor
#37. Yes, a guide can help point the way to your own sense of self and your purpose in life. No, a guide can't replace your own search. When you are in your car driving through town, signposts can tell you where each road goes, but only you can turn the steering wheel.
Deepak Chopra
#38. Only the keeper sees
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods
Rudyard Kipling
#39. (The only birdcall I know is the Road Runner's BEEP BEEP.)
David Levithan
#40. If the sculptor uses stone and if the road builder also uses stone, the first uses it in a way that it is not used, consumed, negated by usage, but affirmed, revealed in its obscurity, as a road that leads only to itself.
Maurice Blanchot
#41. I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him
they were part of his "road," the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.
Joyce Johnson
#42. I'm on the road, Butte is 58 miles away, and I'm driving 85 mph. So I should be there in an hour. Oh, if only love were so easy to calculate.
Jarod Kintz
#43. Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.
Kate Voegele
#44. There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
Wassily Kandinsky
#45. To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality.
John Tibbetts
#46. Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans
#47. She was my ground, my favorite sound,
my country road, my city street,
my sky above, my only love,
and the ground beneath my feet
Salman Rushdie
#48. Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.
Charles M. Schwab
#49. Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
Paul Strand
#50. I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
Vin Scully
#51. Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots.' [William the road-mender about Merlin]
John Steinbeck
#52. Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
David Brooks
#53. The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me.
M.B. Dallocchio
#54. On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite in one road at the last. It is only Omniscience that can decide. And it will then be found that no sect is excluded because of its faith ...
Eliza Leslie
#55. You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And you know that there is no past, no future, there is only this blackness, changing faintly, slowly, but always the same.
Jean Rhys
#56. As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is ... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.
Trish Stratus
#57. Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
#58. The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
Mencius
#59. Let's only care about the place where we are.
There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.
If there's someone beyond the curve in the road,
Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road,
That's what the road is to them.
Alberto Caeiro
#60. It hurts, but that's all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There's only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.
David Goggins
#61. A road surrounded by the flowers may take you a place surrounded by only the stones and the garbage or vice versa!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#63. Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.
Jack Kerouac
#65. A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.
Jay Maisel
#66. But the road only twists and turns. It is forever uphill, forever testing us.
Karina Halle
#67. And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time.'
'That accident was not my fault.'
'You were the only one on the road, and the mailbox actually didn't leap out in front of you. No arguments. You sit in the back, too.
Rachel Caine
#68. If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.
Cliff Richard
#69. If you don't know which road to take in life: do what's loving. Take a path that is loving, with yourself and towards others. That's the only path leading to light. If it's loving, it builds up, if not, it will only tear down.
Sereno Sky
#70. Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#71. Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.
Jerry Seinfeld
#72. I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle.
Cedric Nye
#73. The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.
Edwin Campion Vaughan
#74. Death is the only limit to the road you travel.
Roger Zelazny
#75. Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to sleep.' They have their eyes on Eastern Europe, and if NATO is not willing to stand up forcefully to this threat today, it will only become more difficult to do so down the road.
Seth Moulton
#76. Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
Xavier Rudd
#77. Silly human is trying to get himself killed. Zoltan turned toward the voice but saw only a dog resting on a porch a few houses down the road.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#78. Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#79. The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.
Anton Newcombe
#80. Being thankful to the road not taken, ... because only right things at right time give uh pleasure and success.
Lovely Goyal
#81. Many a wrong, and it's curing song,
many a road, and many an inn,
Room to roam, but only one home,
for all the world to win.
George MacDonald, (Lilith)
George MacDonald
#82. I wasn't the only one hungry on the road, it seemed; a single bite - even a minor scratch - from one of the infected, and we were as good as dead. (And so the cycle repeats.)
Bryant A. Loney
#83. I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.
Daniel Yergin
#84. The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.
John Kendrick Bangs
#85. Only the fearless made proceed.
Brave ones, foolish ones.
Both walk not the middle road.
Toby Fox
#86. All parents make mistakes. They're only human, so all of us grow up with at least a few invisible scars. But maybe that's okay, because the hard times are what make us strong enough to survive all the crap life throws at us down the road.
Alexa Land
#87. He constructed a road from Gaur to the river Indus," says Mushtaqui, but it is more likely that Sher Shah only repaired and realigned the road, for there had been a highway along that grid from ancient times.
Abraham Eraly
#88. Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
Rita Mae Brown
#89. I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road ... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV ... something has gone terribly wrong.
Matt Walsh
#90. We can only climb the mountains because there's a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#91. Children are the only people who accept a mood of wonderment, who are ready to welcome a perfect miracle at any hour of the day or night. Only a child can entertain an angel unawares, or to meet Sir Launcelot in shining armor on a moonlit road.
Kenneth Grahame
#92. And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.
T. S. Eliot
#93. It's hard to keep going when it seems like you're not getting anywhere, but you'll never succeed if you stop. Those of us with a dream that seems so far from being realized must remember that the road is long, but only those who stay on the path will reach their destination.
Thomas Mann
#94. I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
Grandfather Wills , Hocus Pocus
Kurt Vonnegut
#95. Resist the temptation to stir in mashed bananas, applesauce, or fruit juices, or to buy prepared cereal with fruit (even down the road, after you've introduced these fruits), or your baby will quickly come to accept only sweet foods, rejecting all else.
Anonymous
#96. Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.
Trofim Lysenko
#97. There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
Jacob Epstein
#98. I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.
Jonathan Maberry
#99. Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel Smiles
#100. I don't remember a voice
On a dark, lonesome road
When I started this journey so long ago
I was only just trying to outrun the noise
There was never a question of having a choice
Mary Chapin Carpenter
