When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. — Mary Kay Ash
Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination. — James Arthur Ray
Take the back roads instead of the highways. — Minnie Pearl
Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place. — Mandy Hale
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
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. — Zig Ziglar
roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius
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
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. — Turkish Proverbs
All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues. — Tracy Lawrence
…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths. — Mark Nepo
Sometimes when you get lost, you find a better way. — Katrina Mayer
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Berra
Shortcuts often turn into very time-consuming routes. — Swedish Proverbs
Short Detour Quotes
Criticism is something we can avoid easily
by saying nothing, doing nothing,
and being nothing. — Aristotle
Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine! — Jon Gordon
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. — Bill Watterson
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. — Ernest Becker
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. — William Arthur Ward
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker — John C. Maxwell
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. — Doug Larson
Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work). — Seth Godin
We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination — Paulo Coelho
Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks — Oprah Winfrey
Detour Image Quotes
Failure is a detour, not a dead end street
Life Detour Quotes
Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate. — Sheryl Crow
We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. — Richard Paul Evans
Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored. — Joel Osteen
When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path. — Caroline Myss
Life doesn't always go the way you planned it to go. Sometimes you have detours you have to take. — Andrew McCutchen
The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour. — Gerard Way
Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. — Gloria Vanderbilt
Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive. — Wayne Dyer
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours. — Joe Bradley
Take Detour Quotes
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss
Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away. — Frank Lowy
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
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse] — James Jeans
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling. — Samuel Johnson
The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you'll find even those steps useful in the creating process. — David Emerald Womeldorff
An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours. — Lisa Mangum
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. — Sir James Jeans
I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints. — Rick Remender
Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise — Jeff Hardy
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. — Zig Ziglar
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
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
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
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family. — Eleanor Holmes Norton
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
Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination. — Barbara Johnson
None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate. — Lewis B. Smedes
And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble,
But I disregarded detour signs,
And did not stop til you was mine.
I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.'
Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps.
Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.' — Mos Def
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. — Bill Watterson
Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more. — Lao Tzu
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. — Albert Camus
In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable. — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now. — Ann Patchett
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. — Hubert H. Humphrey
The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. — Carl Jung
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
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. — Augusten Burroughs
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. — Unknown
In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey. — Richard Paul Evans
Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects? — Lech Kaczynski
The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come. — John Howard Yoder
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