Quotes About Path

If you can't envision where you're going, you'll have a hard time getting there.

I fully recognize we need to improve the path to citizenship, just as we need to value the hard work of folks who become American citizens legally.

An actor is defined by the choices he or she makes.

Acting was always my passion, even before music, so I knew I was always heading down that path.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

He had come to think that so long as a man wants to do right he may go where he can: when he can go no further, then it is not the way.

the road to the next duty is the only straight one

It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

If any one judge it hard that men should be made with ambitions to whose objects they can never attain, I answer, ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration; and no man ever followed the truth, which is the one path of aspiration, and in the end complained that he had been made this way or that.

Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. The next point will be, whether he is growing at the ratio given him. The key to the whole thing is _obedience_, and nothing else.

The danger that lies in the repression of the imagination may be well illustrated from the play of Macbeth. The imagination of the hero (in him a powerful faculty), representing how the deed would appear to others, and so representing its true nature to himself, was his great impediment on the path to crime.

Animal Farm is a warning to every reader. Beware the utopia; beware the perfect solution and the easy slogan; beware those who claim to know what is best for you; beware bombast and dogma; beware the death of doubt; beware those who do not practice what they preach. Beware the chosen. Beware the one and only true path.

Our path is not for everyone. Many people—I do not mean to disparage them? Lack the necessary resolve.

A story means, at the highest level, not by what it concludes but by how it proceeds.

The "easy-to-decide-on" product wins because customers tend to follow the path of least resistance.

people usually choose the place they get lost in

little white house near the foot of the lighthouse with a little path between. The two buildings stood on a rocky point of land, almost in the water.

In a soundtrack, you are in a way always relating with... a combination of different languages. It has to have the same path and same rhythm. Sometimes it's a polyphony of languages that have to work together in some way. With musical projects alone, you can be more free.

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work.

Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key.

It is not one's surroundings that can help or hinder – it is having a growing purpose in one's life to make the most of whatever is in one's reach. If you have but a few good books, learn those to the very heart of them. Don't for one moment believe that if you had different surroundings and opportunities you would find the upward path any easier to climb. One condition is like another, if you have not the determination and the power to grow in yourself.

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.