Detours Quotes · Page 2

There are no dead ends, just detours.

— Anonymous

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

— John C. Maxwell

Detours are just cockblockers for cars.

— Green Monk

The detour is always rougher than the main road

— Vance Havner

“Dead ends and detours met me at every turn.”

— Linda Durham

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

— Sarah Jessica Parker

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

— James Arthur Ray

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.”

— Toni Sorenson

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

— Ernest Becker

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

— Leighton Ford

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

— Bill Watterson

“Life is full of detours, most likely years worth, but the "detours" get you to where you were meant to be.”

— Amy M Wagner

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour…

— Shawn Amos

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

— Behdad Sami

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and…

— Michael York

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

— Augusten Burroughs

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

— Joe Bradley

“Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué." ("The truth is too simple: one must always get…

— George Sand

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

— Nicholas Sparks

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us…

— Susan L. Taylor

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our…

— Oprah Winfrey

Do we have a guide to help us choose the right and avoid dangerous detours? I have tried to pattern my life…

— Thomas S. Monson

“For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my…

— Richard Paul Evans

There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be - because…

— Esther Hicks

Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A…

— Barbara Johnson

Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it,…

— Margaret Drabble

Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's…

— Henry Mitchell

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

— Seth Godin

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

— Beth Moore

We make a lot of detours, but we are always heading towards the same destination.

— Melchor Lim

“There are no detours on a road trip, Catalano. There is only the road trip itself”

— Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

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

— Walter Benjamin

I believe that on any trip to heaven, there are always detours through hell.

— Richard Finney

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

— Angela N. Blount

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

— Rick Remender

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Lisa Mangum

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

— Carl Jung