102 Beaten Path Quotes

Following is our list of beaten path quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about finding your path.

Quick Jump To

Famous Beaten Path Quotes

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

Paths are made by walking — Franz Kafka

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. — Alexander Graham Bell

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. - Jerry Seinfeld

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. — Jerry Seinfeld

Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. — Mandy Hale

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. - Lu Xun

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. — Lu Xun

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. — Frank A. Clark

The road not taken was not your path. — Michael Lipsey

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. — Antonio Machado

Every path hath a puddle. - George Herbert

Every path hath a puddle. — George Herbert

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. — Frank A. Clark

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk. — Antonio Machado

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. - Vincent Van Gogh

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. — Vincent Van Gogh

Short Beaten Path Quotes

  • Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost. — Ellen DeGeneres
  • Traveler, there are no paths. Paths are made by walking. — Aboriginal proverbs
  • Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius
  • If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. — Terry Goodkind
  • Of all the path you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt. — John Muir
  • He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries. — Unknown
  • You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on. — Mary Wollstonecraft
  • A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean De La Fontaine
  • The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find. — Mencius

Beaten Path Image Quotes

Beaten path quote Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.

Path Quotes

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you! — Ruby Bridges

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap. — Hildegard of Bingen

Beaten path quote The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him. — Yasmin Mogahed

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life. — Henri Nouwen

Beaten path quote Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now doesn't mean that you ar
Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now doesn't mean that you aren't headed for sunshine.

What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr. — Ibn Taymiyyah

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. — Maria Montessori

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land. — Al-Shafi‘i

Finding Your Path Quotes

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths. — Rainer Maria Rilke

One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho

Beaten path quote I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the star
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter. — Sheldon B. Kopp

Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path — Osho

Beaten path quote No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn arou
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. — Mac Anderson

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. — Paul Vixie

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path. — Joseph Campbell

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. — Johnnetta B. Cole

God's Path Quotes

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God. — Charles Stanley

Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus. — A. B. Simpson

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?' — Russell Simmons

Beaten path quote It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did. — Mark Driscoll

Our lifestyle, language, attitudes, and manner of dress reflect on His name. He leads us in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Unless you are honestly convinced that the thing in question will bring glory to God, then don't do it. — Curtis Hutson

I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance. — Corrie Ten Boom

Beaten path quote No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Did you think that the missionary path was all glory? Than you have not read of God's greatest Messenger to earth, who sat and wept over Jerusalem, crying out, ʻI would... but ye would not.ʼ — Isobel Miller Kuhn

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love. — Brennan Manning

God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice. — India.Arie

It’s funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish. — Steve Maraboli

Life Path Quotes

Sometimes the right path is not always the easiest. - Pocahontas

Sometimes the right path is not always the easiest. — Pocahontas

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life. — Saddam Hussein

It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path. — Katharine Drexel

Beaten path quote When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is
When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is taking you.

A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path. — Gay Hendricks

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you. — Joel Osteen

Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace. — Adyashanti

Beaten path quote Direction is so much more important than speed.
Direction is so much more important than speed.

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. — Gloria Gaither

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss. — Joseph Campbell

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut — Alexander Graham Bell

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding. — Elton John

People Writing About Beaten Path

Name Quotes Likes
Read quotes by Frank A. Clark

Frank A. Clark
quotes on education, life and leadership

47 1613
Read quotes by Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado

56 455
Read quotes by Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka
quotes on death, love and bureaucracy

414 5328
Read quotes by Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell
quotes on telephone

64 4482
Read quotes by Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld

282 1528
Read quotes by Mandy Hale

Mandy Hale

51 1

More Beaten Path Quotes

It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions. — Paul Bocuse

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

Beaten path quote No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one way. We
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path.

For most dreams, there is no beaten path. If your dream is unconventional or unexpected or even impossible, then it’s your challenge to tackle. — Alexi Pappas

Beaten paths are for beaten men. — Eric Johnston

Beaten path quote No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.

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

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

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

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — Abraham Lincoln

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

The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following. — James Hetfield

I keep interested and I keep my eyes wide open...I try to read as much as possible...try to go to places that are off the beaten path...and I love to listen in on other peoples conversations...all the things that are floating around out there and I regurgitate it with my perspective...lyrically and musically. — Nikki Sixx

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

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

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

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. — Abraham Lincoln

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God. — Amy Levy

Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it. — Tori Murden

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible. — Jeffery Taylor

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible. — Jeff Taylor

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

I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path. — Jack White

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV. — Bradford Cox

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

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

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path. — John Dewey

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information. — William Hazlitt

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone. — Ellen Glasgow

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

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

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease. — William Harvey

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

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

See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds. — William Goldman

Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten. — Haruki Murakami

In Conclusion

Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of beaten path quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about beaten path to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.

Citation

Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of beaten path quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.

Embed HTML Link

Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage