Maya Angelou Quotes

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

Sometimes life throws you a shortcut. You either take it, or you continue the way you were going.

While it's generally easier to stay the course, it's a bad idea if that course does not take us where we want to go.

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

Always walk where you like your steps.

It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

When faced with the choice, choose happy.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

There's still time to change the road you're on...

Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.

I don't believe in mistakes. Never have. I believe that there are a multitude of paths before us and it's just a matter of which way we walk home. I don't believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, than I'll bet that you're not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high-school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street ... or didn't. But you don't know; you can't possibly know.

All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.

In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.

Look forward. Turn what has been done into a better path.

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.