Dead Ends Quotes

• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Death, Failure

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 29, 2014

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• There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

  Orrin Woodward

  Thinking, Ends

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2017

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• A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

  Naomi Judd

  Inspirational, Turns, Streets

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• The longer a dead-end, the more it looks like a road.

  Mikhail Turovsky

  Looks, Ends

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• 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

  Motivational, Change, Teacher

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• If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Purpose

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• Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

  Cullen Hightower

  Moving Forward, Thinking, Futility Of Life

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• Life is a dead-end street.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Streets, Life Is

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• People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Bridges, People

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Encouragement for Life: Words of Hope and Inspiration”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Finding Yourself, Links, Getting Lost

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Attitude, Way, Streets

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• Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

  Albert Camus

  Steps, Accepting, Should

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.346, Vintage

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• Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

  William Arthur Ward

  Failure, Delay, Detours

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Way

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• It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

  Greil Marcus

  Culture, Myth, Intrigued

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.110, Penguin

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• I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

  Brenda Laurel

  Thinking, Television, Ends

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• I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

  Anish Kapoor

  Years, Two, Lines

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• I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

  Rudy Rucker

  Thinking, Dry, Nanotechnology

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

  Aaron Carter

  Coffee, Swag, Names

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• Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again; No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends; No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.

  Tom Chapin

  Together Again, Feelings, Lines

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• People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

  Dean Kamen

  Mistake, Writing, Simple

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• I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Years, Six

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• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

  John C. Maxwell

  Teacher, Life And Love, Failure

  Twitter post from Mar 7, 2016

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• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

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