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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. -- Zig Ziglar
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. -- Mary Kay Ash
See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction. -- Jason Schwartzman
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost. -- Damien Chazelle
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. -- Mary Kay Ash
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes. -- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. -- Clay Aiken
If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote. -- Mitt Romney
In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies. -- Shawn Amos
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. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
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. -- Denis Waitley
I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour. -- Matthew McConaughey
We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour. -- Andrew Eldritch
I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist. -- Jess Walter
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure. -- Tom Hodgkinson
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. -- Mary Kay Ash
The detour is always rougher than the main road -- Vance Havner
It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour. -- Theodor Reik
Failure is a detour on the way to using Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. -- William Arthur Ward
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine! -- Jon Gordon
There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it. -- Leighton Ford
Never view obstacles in your path as the enemy. Rather, view any obstacles as detour signs to avoid pitfalls. -- Donald L. Hicks
Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination. -- James Arthur Ray
When the quest of a dream has a detour or dip, look beyond your dismay and go finish the trip. -- Wes Fesler
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. -- James Hopwood Jeans
Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. -- Lynne Truss
...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. -- Lynne Truss
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. -- Hermann Hesse
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. -- Zig Ziglar
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home. -- Shannon L. Alder
Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path. -- Behdad Sami
The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour. -- Gerard Way
On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers. -- Nicholas Sparks
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. -- Augusten Burroughs
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. -- Darren Shan
I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours. -- Joe Bradley
The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come. -- John Howard
Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored. -- Joel Osteen
If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you. -- Allison DuBois
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place. -- Sydney J. Harris
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling. -- Samuel Johnson
I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth. -- Nikki Rowe

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