Straight Path Quotes - Page 2

• I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

  Martin Luther

  Hypocrite, Cutting, Fighting

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• Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.

  Edward Everett

  Integrity, Blessing, May

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.41, Рипол Классик

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• I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

  Diana Vreeland

  Joy, Tears, Ordinary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Path, Saws

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.378, Vintage

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Humility, Thinking

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• You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

  Juliet Marillier

  Daughter, Pain, Betrayal

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Take the years when you’re young – say, between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five, before you have a mortgage or kids or anything else that needs to be fed – and go balls out on intuition and follow your dreams. Dreams won’t always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they’re usually related to what your soul wants for you. They’ll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they’ll kick your ass, and most importantly, they’ll turn you on.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Kids, Destiny

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• When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path

  Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez

  Pregnancy, Kids, Alcohol

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• Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

  Pindar

  Men, Skills, Path

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• Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on the media side. It hasn't been a straight path. But a lot of those mess-ups have led to opportunities, so I guess I'd say be fearless, and keep bottled water with you, so you don't dehydrate.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Opportunity, Naps, Media

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Graduation, Stress

  "Lean in, speak out". Address to graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 28, 2014 at Tercentenary Theatre, news.harvard.edu.

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• The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school.

  RZA

  Ocean, School, Reality

  Source: www.complex.com

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• ...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

  David Ricardo

  Honesty, Powerful, Thinking

  David Ricardo (1952). “Works and Correspondence: Letters, 1816-1818”, University Press

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