146 Wrong Road Quotes

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Famous Wrong Road Quotes

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere. — George Bernard Shaw

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. - Terry Goodkind

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. — Terry Goodkind

Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around. - Edgar Cayce

Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around. — Edgar Cayce

No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. - Turkish Proverbs

No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. — Turkish Proverbs

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved. — Bob Marley

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

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. — Xunzi

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. — Antonio Porchia

Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one. — Paul Tudor Jones

Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place. — Mandy Hale

When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. — Steven Wright

roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. — Lewis Carroll

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. — Proverbs

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger

Short Wrong Road Quotes

  • The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction — John Bunyan
  • There's still time to change the road you're on... — Robert Plant
  • If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. — Jerry Seinfeld
  • Don't leave the old road for a new trail. — Spanish Proverbs
  • When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. — Mary Kay Ash
  • It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction. — Stephen Covey
  • All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues. — Tracy Lawrence
  • Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it's simply a way of your own. — Angelina Jolie
  • A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn. — Helen Keller

Wrong Road Image Quotes

Wrong road 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.

Taking A New Road Quotes

Put a small piano in a truck and drive out on country roads; take time to discover new scenery; stop in a pretty place where there is a good church; upload the piano and tell the residents; give a concert; offer flowers to the people who have been so kind as to attend; leave again. — Sviatoslav Richter

When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." — Yogi Berra

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Wrong road 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.

Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again. — P. C. Cast

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

I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums. — Talib Kweli

Wrong road quote If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

I'm playing a D-28 Martin that I've had about 20 years or so. I've got a '51 Martin and I thought I shouldn't be taking this on the road. So I went down to Gruhn Guitars in Nashville and kind of traded around and ended up with this one. This guitar sounded pretty good as new guitar. — Steve Young

I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before. — Alicia Keys

One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into ones which we can neither predict nor control, to lead us down new roads whose contours and vistas provide us with new perspectives. — Richard F. Thomas

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh. — Henri Nouwen

Wrong Route Quotes

There has to be a large number of people and routes that are lined up together. One part is liquidity and the other part is product - there's a lot that can go wrong. — Travis Kalanick

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong. — Lynn Abbey

It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to stop and try a radically different approach then to continue down the wrong route for too long. — Scott D. Anthony

Wrong road quote If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things. — Akeem Ayers

If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message. — Christiane Northrup

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity. — Fausto Cercignani

Wrong Turn Quotes

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know. — Desmond Tutu

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. — C. S. Lewis

You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong. — Fred Hollows

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. — Russell Baker

In 2008-09, when the Fed started quantitative easing, I thought that inflation would take off. I was wrong. Instead, velocity - the rate at which money turns over per year - declined, taking away its inflationary sting. Velocity still is falling. — Cathie Wood

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man. — Mila Kunis

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet. — Natsuki Takaya

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel. — Hedy Lamarr

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. — Jim Rohn

Wrong Path Quotes

The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path. — Phyllis Schlafly

You can actually become a better person today if you follow the correct path. Contrarily, you can also become worse by doing the wrong things. The choice is yours. I recommend you get better. — Jocko Willink

The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. — Robert Southwell

In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light. — Akiane Kramarik

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived. — Vernon Howard

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth. — Bruce Lee

…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths. — Mark Nepo

All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that stuff, you're going down the wrong path. — Dan Gable

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong. — Paulo Coelho

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes. — Marc Benioff

Right Road Quotes

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road. — Shahid Khan

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. - Samuel Beckett

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. — Paulo Coelho

When the enemy attacks you, this means that you are on the right road. - Enver Hoxha

When the enemy attacks you, this means that you are on the right road. — Enver Hoxha

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away. — Ted Rall

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. — Orison Swett Marden

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return. — Chen Shui-bian

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. — Andy Borowitz

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. — Dag Hammarskjold

Wrong Way Quotes

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. — W. E. B. Du Bois

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be. — Meek Mill

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. — Thomas Sowell

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise. — Michael Jordan

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey

I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. — John Diefenbaker

I could've never envisioned things goin' this way in a million years. But, I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions. I'm sure that everything [has] happened for a reason. — Joe Budden

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. — Dr. Seuss

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. — Jayne Mansfield

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way. — Vance Havner

Wrong Direction Quotes

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection. — Wendell Berry

No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong. — Zayn Malik

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go! — Zedd

It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction. — Diane Grant

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. - Charles Bukowski

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. — Charles Bukowski

We don’t know how time and circumstances will change what we want and even who we want to be, and locking our life GPS onto a single target can give us the right directions to the wrong destination. — Adam Grant

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. - Kenichi Ohmae

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. — Winston Churchill

The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction. — Bob Sorge

Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too. — Marilyn vos Savant

Different Roads Quotes

We're changing our ways, taking different roads, and love will tear us apart again. — Ian Curtis

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

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart. — Ian Curtis

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand. — Melina Marchetta

If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed were to bump into each other along the road and go have a cup of tea or whatever, I think we all know they would treat one another far different and far better than a lot of their followers would. — Brian D. McLaren

We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes — Fujio Cho

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. — George R. R. Martin

We know we're coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road. — Beth Moore

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently. — Meriwether Lewis

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel. — Drake

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More Wrong Road Quotes

You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose. — Carli Lloyd

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness. — M. Scott Peck

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion. — Darren Aronofsky

Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken? — Damon Knight

I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV... something has gone terribly wrong. — Matt Walsh

I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads. — Kiana Tom

It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that! — Katherine Stinson

No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us. — Jim Rohn

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future. — Richard M. Weaver

When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required. — Joel Osteen

Anything that's motivated from fear will ultimately take you down the wrong road and lead you in a cul de sac, anything motivated from purpose, from joy, and from love will take you on an evolutionary path to greater and greater happiness. — Jack Canfield

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one. — Francis Bacon

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder. — Denise Levertov

I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong. — Martin Gore

I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me. — Jennifer Niven

This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat. — Enver Hoxha

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom. — Garet Garrett

If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination. — Dallin H. Oaks

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name. — Maria Sharapova

When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road. — Josh Billings

A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten. — Alice Hoffman

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. — C. S. Lewis

I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road. — Billy Bob Thornton

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page. — Margaret Atwood

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go. — Michael Marshall Smith

Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night. — Kim Addonizio

It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life. — Ralph Maxwell

The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country! — Hunter S. Thompson

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song — Billy Rose

There's no use running if you're on the wrong road. — Warren Buffett

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. — Robert Breault

I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain? — Norton Juster

If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus. — Randall Jarrell

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing. — Lauren Oliver

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