Beaten Path Quotes

• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Track, Patriotism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.169, A&C Black

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.

  Tori Murden

  Path, Never Regret, Beaten

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• If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

  Joyce Meyer

  Tired, New Experiences, People

  Joyce Meyer (2006). “The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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• Beaten paths are for beaten men.

  Eric Johnston

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  "Speaker's encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes" by Jacob Braude, 1955.

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• You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Sheep, Lions, Way

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Genius, Path, Distinction

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

  Charles Mathias

  Courage, People, Want

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• Towering genius distains a beaten path.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Genius, Path, Beaten

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• If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Decatur (Ill.) Daily Republican, 19 May 1882.

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• The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

  Andre Gide

  Games, Path, Beaten

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Genius, Path

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.41, Penguin

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• What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.

  Gary Cole

  Military, War, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

  Charlaine Harris

  Taken, Path, Sometimes

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• If you choose to get off the beaten path here, you'll find yourself in a situation where everything looks the same.

  Joe Teti

  Off The Beaten Path, Survival, Finding Yourself

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• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  Idris Elba

  Order, Years, Law

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• My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Night, Off The Beaten Path, Quirky

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• In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophy, Mind, Religion

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.105, The Floating Press

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• Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Climbing, Mountain, Cracks

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.34, Picador

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• To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Ideas, Off The Beaten Path, People

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• I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Inspirational, Lying, Honor

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• What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

  Ahad Ha'am

  People, Path, Ability

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