99 Most Inspiring Quotes about Finding Your Path

No matter how strong and focused you are on achieving your life goals, sometimes you’ll encounter hurdles that will throw you off your game and leave you feeling lost. When this happens, you should take a moment to figure out what’s happening and your next cause of action. You also need to find inspiration to retrace your path and the strength to keep going.

This article offers you the 99 most inspiring quotes about finding your path.

99 Most Inspiring Quotes about Finding Your Path

1. “There will come a time – in fact, many times – when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then – at last – is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
2. “Occasionally we must disconnect to reconnect later on.” ― Dominic Riccitello
3. “Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
4. “You don’t have to know where you’re going to get exactly where you need to go.” ― Marilyn A. Hepburn
5. “Unlike many other journeys, when it comes to finding self and matters of the heart you’ll swiftly find yourself lost if you follow someone else’s.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
6. “Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don’t limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
7. “It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
8. “It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
9. “If you think you’re lost in life, even though your mind didn’t know it, your soul has never been lost. It knows exactly where it’s going, and if your ego will step out of the way and allow you to be guided, you will move directly towards your purpose in life.” ― Sonia Choquette
10. “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.” – Gavriel Kay
11. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Gautama Buddha
12. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
13. “You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes, and at what price you will sell yourself.” – Epictetus
14. “So at the end of this day, we give thanks. For being betrothed to the unknown.” – John O’Donohue.
15. “We’re not lost. We’re just headed somewhere different.” – Emily X.R. Pan
16. “Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding, and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.” – Sivananda
17. “A person chose their path. Or they made a new one.” – Victoria Schwab
18. “Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels it becomes the path itself!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
19. “But remember, nothing comes without a price. Our paths are not mapped; they’re made.” – Priya Ardis.
20. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
21. “Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” – Theodore Roethke
22. “When the path reveals itself, follow it.” – Cheryl Strayed
23. “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” – Joseph Campbell
24. “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.” – M.H. McKee
25. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins
27. “Today’s ‘best practices’ lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.” – Peter Thiel
28. “Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney
29. “Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.” – Ram Dass
30. “The path of your life can change in an instant.” – Ann Brashares
31. “A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.” – Rebecca Solnit
32. “We cannot keep a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.” – Ben Sweetland
33. “Follow your path, and let the people talk.” – Dante Alighieri
34. “Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.” – Horace
35. “All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, choose a path with heart and love.” – Carlos Castaneda
36. “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” –Barack Obama
37. “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau
38. “Choosing a path means having to miss out on others.” – Paulo Coelho
39. “The path to youth takes a lifetime.” – Pablo Picasso
40. “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations are.” – Oliver Goldsmith
41. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
42. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” – Susan Magsamen
43. “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld
44. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
45. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
46. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
47. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
48. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – TS Eliot
49. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
50. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
51. “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” – Katherine Whitehorn
52. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
53. “I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.” – Jon Stewart
54. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
55. “A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” – Arthur Golden
56. “It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.” – Brian White
57. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – General George Patton
58. “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” – Confucius
59. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain
60. “The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.” – Thomas Carlyle
61. “He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow.” – Nietzsche
62. “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” – Paulo Coelho
63. “The two most important days in life are the day you’re born and the day you discover the reason why.” – Mark Twain
64. “Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” – Washington Irving
65. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
66. “When you stay on purpose and refuse to be discouraged by fear, you align with the infinite self, in which all possibilities exist.” – Wayne Dyer
67. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone
68. “Here is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
69. “More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.” – Billy Sunday
70. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
71. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
72. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams
73. “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” – Matsuo Basho
74. “To live the greatest number of good years is wisdom.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
75. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
76. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
77. “The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.” – Ed Sheeran
78. “You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” – Joss Whedon
79. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn.” – Jack Kerouac
80. “Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life, that we turn down a wonderful opportunity simply because we don’t know what to do with it.” – Paulo Coelho
81. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
82. “Life is out there waiting, so go and get it!” – Mary Poppins, ‘Mary Poppins’
83. “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner we were born in and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” – Oberyn Martell
84. “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences.” – Chris McCandless
85. “Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.” – Abraham Lincoln
86. “If a man can make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. “I’m always looking for what there is to see that’s weird and wonderful and off the beaten path.” – Joanna Going
88. “Get off the beaten path… If you want to find those mom-and-pop joints, those funky little places, just ask around.” – Guy Fieri
89. “When you do anything completely different from a beaten path, many tend to pounce on you.” – Ram Gopal Varma
90. “To find the right path, we first need to remember why we are on the wrong path. The reason can be put in one word: sin.” – Billy Graham
91. “The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
92. “Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.” – Shannon L. Alder
93. “If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
94. “History proved many times that the path of millions was often the wrong path!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
95. “It’s better to be slow and careful in the right direction than to be fast and careless on the wrong path.” – Israelmore Ayivor
96. “Be sure that you are on the right path before you begin to take your steps!” – Israelmore Ayivor
97. “Chances are if you are following the crowd, you’re following the wrong path.” – Bob Proctor
98. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
99. “Every time you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn’t wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time.” – Natsuki Takaya