Detours Quotes

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Life doesn't always go the way you planned it to go. Sometimes you have detours you have to take.

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.