Quotes on Detours

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

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

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

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a “rolling stop”; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

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.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily_x000D_ _x000D_ by saying nothing, doing nothing,_x000D_ _x000D_ and being nothing.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth