Beaten Path Quotes

• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Track, Patriotism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.169, A&C Black

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• Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.

  Tori Murden

  Path, Never Regret, Beaten

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• 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

  Tired, New Experiences, People

  Joyce Meyer (2006). “The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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• Beaten paths are for beaten men.

  Eric Johnston

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  "Speaker's encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes" by Jacob Braude, 1955.

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• 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

  Courage, People, Want

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Genius, Path, Distinction

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Sheep, Lions, Way

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• Towering genius distains a beaten path.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Genius, Path, Beaten

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• 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

  Climbing, Mountain, Cracks

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.34, Picador

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

  Andre Gide

  Games, Path, Beaten

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Decatur (Ill.) Daily Republican, 19 May 1882.

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

  Charlaine Harris

  Taken, Path, Sometimes

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Genius, Path

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.41, Penguin

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• 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

  Military, War, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Philosophy, Exercise, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2095, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Inspirational, Lying, Honor

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

  Joe Teti

  Off The Beaten Path, Survival, Finding Yourself

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

  Amy Levy

  Way, Path, Walking

  Amy Levy (2006). “Reuben Sachs: A Sketch”, p.192, Broadview Press

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• 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

  Hurt, Freedom, Long

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• In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure, to be off the beaten path, to be in the wilderness feels like abandonment. It seems more like exile than a vacation. To be so far off of everyone’s radar that the world might forget about us for a while? That’s almost akin to death…[But] far from being punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. It’s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God.

  Jonathan Martin

  Vacation, Media, Punishment

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• More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.

  Phyllis Rose

  Appreciation, Dark, Vocabulary

  Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan

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