Detours Quotes

• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Death, Failure

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 29, 2014

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• For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspiring, Success, Failure

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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

  James Arthur Ray

  Life, Empowering, May

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• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Change, Teacher

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• One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Adversity, Journey

  John C. Maxwell (1997). “Your Roadmap for Success”

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• 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.

  John Piper

  Believe, Delay, Capacity

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah

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• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

  Paulo Coelho

  Destination, Headings

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Worry, Finding Yourself, Hazards

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.40, Multnomah

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• Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

  Sheryl Crow

  Cancer, Challenges, Faces

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• 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.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Flower, Enjoy, Scenery

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• 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.

  Michael York

  Believe, Destiny, Thinking

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• There are no dead ends, just detours.

  Nora Roberts

  Dead Ends, Ends

  Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb (2010). “Remember When: In Death Novella”, p.197, Hachette UK

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• The most interesting people I know drink in life and savor every drop-the sweet and the sour. The good and the bad. The planned and the unplanned... Right in the midst of what seems to me to be a detour from the map, I'm often gifted with something precious and unforgettable. Capturing the moment is a choice, a way of life. It requires us to wake up, live life, and be present-here, there and everywhere. Sometimes that's scary; sometimes it's exhilarating. Always, it's an adventure I keep learning to welcome with a full and grateful heart.

  Luci Swindoll

  Gratitude, Sweet, Live Life

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• Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Purpose

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

  Lisa Mangum

  Journey, Unexpected, Destination

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Mistake, Choices

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• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Trying, Truth Is

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.

  Henry Mitchell

  Journey, Hiking, Long

  Henry Mitchell (2014). “Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the quest of a dream has a detour or dip, look beyond your dismay and go finish the trip.

  Wes Fesler

  Dream, Determination, Looks

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

  Seth Godin

  Looks, Shortcuts

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• There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be - because your Inner Being is always guiding you to the next, and the next, and the next. So don't be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren't any of those. You are always finding your balance. It's a never ending process.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Believe In Yourself

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

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Truth Is, Overnight Success

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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