Right Road Quotes - Page 2

• The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.

  Augustus Hare

  Beautiful, Country, Wish

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• To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Winning, Order

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• From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.

  Kelvin Sampson

  Common Sense, Might, Able

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• I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Crazy, Fishing, Touching

  N.Y. Times, 23 May 1927

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• When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

  Ove Arup

  Study, Architect, Cranes

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• The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Lame, Judo

  Sir Francis Bacon, “The Interpretation Of Nature And”

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• My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

  Shahid Khan

  Business Success, Experience, Hardship

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• Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Tests, Way

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Grateful, People, Choices

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Country, Thinking, Development

  Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

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• And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Successful, Enthusiasm, Causes

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1995). “Selected Writings”, HarperCollins

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• Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Positivity, Mind, Here And There

  "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 79, 1958.

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• You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Thinking, Want, Might

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Life, Lying, Creating

  "The Mandate". Book by Jacob Bergen, p. 33, 2006.

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• My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

  Thomas Merton

  Shadow Of Death, Ideas, May

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• I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  God, Thinking, Knowing

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

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• Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Moving, Views, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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• We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

  John Zerzan

  Animal, Lost

  John Zerzan (2015). “Why Hope?: The Stand Against Civilization”, p.106, Feral House

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• Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

  David Lynch

  Talking, Actors, Moments

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