Detours Quotes

Detours Quote of the day

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.

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.

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.

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

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you'll find even those steps useful in the creating process.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

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

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.

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

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

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

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.

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

Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

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

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'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

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

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.

On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.

In the moment, you most likely won't know how valuable such detours will prove to be, but life has a way of revealing the hidden magic in these moments down the road at the appropriate time.

Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.