Straight Path Quotes:

Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!

- Bahá'u'lláh

topic: Path, Spirit, Straight Path

The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

- Carole Wilkinson

topic: Path, Sometimes, Crooked, Straight Path

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

- Andre Gide

topic: Inspiration, Objectivity, Goal, Straight Path

Even when there’s a straight path in front of us, we, unfortunately, and foolishly, turn right~ around and it’s after that we realize it.

- Minzy

topic: Path, Realizing, Turns, Straight Path

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.

- Suze Orman

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Loss, Right Path, Straight Path

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

- Saadi

topic: Men, Path, Lost, Straight Path

We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

- Kyan Douglas

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Who We Are, Path, Quiet, Straight Path

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

- Barack Obama

source: "Barack Obama's farewell speech: this is how a leader signs off" by Ruchira Karnik, www.hindustantimes.com. January 15, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

- Chin-Ning Chu

topic: Life, Dream, Successful, Successful Life, Right Path

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Love, Appreciate, Path, International Peace Day, World Peace Day

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

- T. Boone Pickens

topic: Determination, Elephants, Want, Straight Path

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Literature, Way, Path, Straight Path

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.35, A&C Black

topic: Leadership, Persistence, Men, Deviation, Straight Path

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Inspirational, Success, Congratulations, Wrong Path, Planning And Success

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

- Bill Bradley

source: "Toni’s Take on Real Estate: The Three ‘P’s You Need" by Toni Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2012.

topic: Positive, Perseverance, Encouragement, Life Ambition, Ambitious Person

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

- Abu Bakr

topic: Way, Path, Holy, Caliphs, Straight Path

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.

- Michael York

source: "I Am American Business" Interveiw, www.cnbc.com.

topic: Believe, Destiny, Thinking, Rejecting, Straight Path

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

- Jimmy Buffett

topic: Voice, Path, Helping, Right Path, Straight Path

The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; theres no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

- Denise Di Novi

topic: Perseverance, Passion, Dedication, Movie Business, Straight Path

If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are desperately seeking for answers to the problems which afflict mankind, it is an "iron rod" as a safe guide along the straight path on the way to eternal life, amidst the strange and devious roadways that would eventually lead to destruction and to the ruin of all that is "virtuous, lovely, or of good report."

- Ann M. Dibb

topic: Men, Frustration, Iron, Devious, Straight Path

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

topic: World, Path, No Hope, Straight Path

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

- Heraclitus

topic: Path, Combs, Straight Path

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.

- Dante Alighieri

source: Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (1995). “Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.19, Indiana University Press

topic: Dark, Journey, Woods, Midway, Dark Woods

Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.

- Stephen Hawking

source: Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

topic: Moving, Two, Space, Straight Path

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Pride, Blessing, Past, Servility, False Pride

I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

- Martin Luther

topic: Hypocrite, Cutting, Fighting, Quagmire, Straight Path

Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.

- Edward Everett

source: Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.41, Рипол Классик

topic: Integrity, Blessing, May, Straight Path

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

- Diana Vreeland

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Joy, Tears, Ordinary, Told You So, Straight Path

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

- Nikolai Gogol

source: Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.378, Vintage

topic: Path, Saws, Straight Path

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

- Brennan Manning

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press

topic: Christian, Humility, Thinking, Straight Path

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

- Juliet Marillier

topic: Daughter, Betrayal, Pain, Straight Path

Take the years when you’re young – say, between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five, before you have a mortgage or kids or anything else that needs to be fed – and go balls out on intuition and follow your dreams. Dreams won’t always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they’re usually related to what your soul wants for you. They’ll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they’ll kick your ass, and most importantly, they’ll turn you on.

- Kelly Cutrone

topic: Dream, Kids, Destiny, Straight Path, Hard Questions

When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path

- Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez

topic: Pregnancy, Kids, Alcohol, Straight Path, Unwanted Pregnancy

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

- Pindar

topic: Men, Skills, Path, Straight Path

Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on the media side. It hasn't been a straight path. But a lot of those mess-ups have led to opportunities, so I guess I'd say be fearless, and keep bottled water with you, so you don't dehydrate.

- Melissa Harris-Perry

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Opportunity, Naps, Media, Straight Path, Bottled Water

There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

- Sheryl Sandberg

source: "Lean in, speak out". Address to graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 28, 2014 at Tercentenary Theatre, news.harvard.edu.

topic: Inspiring, Graduation, Stress, White Space, Don't Stress

The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school.

- RZA

topic: Ocean, School, Reality, Straight Path

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

- David Ricardo

topic: Honesty, Powerful, Thinking, Straight Path