94 Road Less Travelled Quotes

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Famous Road Less Travelled Quotes

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

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

roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius

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

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

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. — Robert Brault

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

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

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. — Robert Hunter

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T. S. Eliot

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. — Robert Breault

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. — Albert Einstein

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. — Don Williams

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

Short Road Less Travelled Quotes

  • Traveler, there are no paths. Paths are made by walking. — Aboriginal proverbs
  • Take the back roads instead of the highways. — Minnie Pearl
  • Of all the path you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt. — John Muir
  • There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. — Roger Staubach
  • All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues. — Tracy Lawrence
  • …there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths. — Mark Nepo
  • Paths are made by walking — Franz Kafka
  • Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. — Oliver Goldsmith
  • If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. — Terry Goodkind
  • NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. — Walt Whitman

Road Less Travelled Image Quotes

Road less travelled quote The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

Road Less Traveled Quotes

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. — M. Scott Peck

Originality is taking the road less traveled. Championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better. But it doesn’t stop there: Originals are people who take the initiative to make their visions a reality. — Adam Grant

I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit. — Roger Waters

Road less travelled quote Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. — Robert Frost

I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone. — Jason Collins

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. — Katie Couric

Road less travelled quote Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
Have more than you show, speak less than you know.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. — M. Scott Peck

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy. — Walter Dean Myers

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. — M. Scott Peck

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom. — M. Scott Peck

Roads Traveled Quotes

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. — Walt Whitman

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. — Walt Whitman

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. - Matsuo Basho

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss

Road less travelled quote The smarter you get, the less you speak.
The smarter you get, the less you speak.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me. — Bob Marley

All that is gold does not glitter. — J. R. R. Tolkien

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. — Bobby Jones

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. - Jack Kerouac

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. — Jack Kerouac

Road Not Taken Quotes

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Juan Gabriel

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did. — Charlie Daniels

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized. — Blaise Pascal

Road less travelled quote Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.
Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.

One always wonders about roads not taken. — Warren Christopher

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. — Gore Vidal

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken. — Jenny Han

Road less travelled 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.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids. — Robert Breault

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. — Robert Breault

I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken. — Liz Garbus

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me. — Sylvia Plath

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More Road Less Travelled Quotes

Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible. — Li Cunxin

I've always sort of felt a little bit like I was on the road less traveled, so if I come across a story about a person who broke the rules, or did things differently and succeeded, that's really inspiring to me. — Laura Bell Bundy

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn. — Joss Whedon

I chose the road less traveled. Now I'm lost. — Darynda Jones

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. — Richard Le Gallienne

I feel a huge responsibility to anyone who's younger than me, in helping them take the road less traveled, or finding no road at all and blazing a new trail. — Sandra Bullock

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom. — M. Scott Peck

And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK. — Katie Couric

Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself. — Frederick Lenz

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived. — Charles Caleb Colton

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

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. — Rachel Carson

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. — M. Scott Peck

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

Always follow your path, or the road less travelled. — Dinesh Sharma

Take the road less travelled. — Robin Sharma

The road less traveled will not be smooth — Megan McCafferty

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year. — Josh Turner

Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less travelled I'm patient so that's one less hassle If I dream it, I can live it I've seen the light with vivid imagery I need to write with fits of energy But it's hard tryin' to get where I'm goin' Without a hint or an omen It's too late to turn around Perseverance, gotta learn it now But I'm stubborn how Am I supposed to survive this rollercoaster hurtlin' to the ground? — Danny Denzongpa

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day. — Larry Wall

In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance. — Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven. — William T. Piper

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. — Robert Breault

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK. — Katie Couric

It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn. — M. Scott Peck

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love. — M. Scott Peck

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