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).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.

Sometimes when we’re focused on quickly getting to our destination, we’ll encounter unexpected roadblocks and detours. Always remember that there’s more than one path that will lead you to where you’re going. Who knows? You might just enjoy that new, more scenic route!

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

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.

The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.

It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.