Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost
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
Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. — Robert Breault
roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius
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
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. — Jerry Seinfeld
Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. — Mahmoud Darwish
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Berra
NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. — Walt Whitman
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
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean De La Fontaine
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
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
Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.
Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. — Mandy Hale
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
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
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
Road Less Travelled Quotes
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
Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
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
It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
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
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
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
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
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
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
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
Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me. — Bob Marley
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
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
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on HBO in my hometown is huge. To be great you have to fight the best. Chad has beaten the best so these are the type fights I want to take. I will put on a great show for all the fans that come out to Oracle Arena. — Andre Ward
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
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
But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan. — Davy Rothbart
I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too. Just hope when you get to that great racetrack in the sky, that the balance will tip slightly into those things that you'd be proud of. — Paul Newman
Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back. — Adam Levine
Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having. — Laura Mullen
Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went. — Virginia Woolf
Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves. — Brett Ratner
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying. — Pope Benedict XVI
Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts. — Michel de Montaigne
There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. — Jenny Han
I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too. — Paul Newman
The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning. — Nelson Mandela
Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim. — Philippa Gregory
He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore. — Ann Brashares
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