First Step Quotes

#1. The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace into your environment.

Gracia Hunter

#2. A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Publilius Syrus

#3. The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

Leslie Ludy

#4. Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Lord Byron

#5. Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.

John Bingham

#6. The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

Tara Brach

#7. A mystical path requires courage as you must take a first step of faith so that the second may be of science.

Luis Marques

#8. I have learned that the first step to letting go is to accept the facts.

Abeer Allan

#9. He made a careful rehearsal of some of their bits of talk
why had she said this? what had she meant by that? why had she done the other? He dwelt on these matters with an absorbed speculation, and with a young man of Ogden's temperament speculation was but the first step on the way to love.

Henry Blake Fuller

#10. Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy
of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

Arthur C. Clarke

#11. How does one know that, before the first hello? It's a heaviness in the air combined with a lightness of step. It's a slowing down of the past, and a speeding up of the future.

Melanie Benjamin

#12. Love won't come through unless the heart is open. To work with an open heart is to love or care for something or someone more than you do for yourself. This is the first step to the divine love that we all are looking for.

Harold Klemp

#13. Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon

#14. The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [ ... ] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

Laura Miller

#15. Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Aenea heard the music of the spheres. She resonated with the Void Which Binds, which resonates in turn to sentient life and thought, and then she used the almost illimitable energy of the Void to ... to take the first step.

Dan Simmons

#18. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

J.K. Rowling

#19. Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Watchman Nee

#20. The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminating the threat of an immediate interest rate increase, while making clear the need to move toward a long-term solution that serves the best interests of taxpayers and borrowers.

John Kline

#21. We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we're supporting the U.S.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#22. Disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness

Padgett Powell

#23. Dancing is the first step to falling in love, after all.

Anne Leonard

#24. The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

Condoleezza Rice

#25. Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.

Jim George

#26. While knowing how to value businesses is essential for investment success, the first and perhaps most important step in the investment process is knowing where to look for opportunities

Seth Klarman

#27. Realizing you've got shit on your fingers is the first step toward washing your hands.

James S.A. Corey

#28. CRITICISM' is a first step of a Success

Samar Sudha

#29. I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

Rita Ora

#30. All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

Napoleon Hill

#31. Take control from the moment you step in her place. She'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed.

Auliq Ice

#32. The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

#33. The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

Byron Nelson

#34. Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.

Laura Mullen

#35. The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

Gary Zukav

#36. He arrived tentatively at his own idea, that melancholy arose from natural, sometimes beneficent forces. Talking about it in plain human terms was his first step toward claiming his own ground as a person who, through no fault of his own, needed help.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#37. A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

#38. Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules; you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.

Osho

#39. Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.

Darren McFadden

#40. The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?

Hal Elrod

#41. So often we wait for the climate and conditions in life to be perfect before we feel safe enough to step forward, trust, and be our authentic selves. What we don't realize is that in order to create the ideal climate we are waiting for, we must be authentic first.

Sonia Choquette

#42. The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Jann Arden

#43. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Carol Goodman

#44. durable. Guidelines to start the MPS portrait In this session we start with the first step: collecting data from others. From this range of feedback you will learn important things about yourself: The responses from your contacts will

Juan Humberto Young

#45. First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of.

Olawale Robyns

#46. Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

Iyanla Vanzant

#47. The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Adrienne Von Speyr

#48. But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd?

Stephen Jay Gould

#49. Be the person that will take the first step towards personal success. You will be remembered for it.

Steven Cuoco

#50. Asking why can be the first step to bringing about change in almost any context.

Anonymous

#51. Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

Edward Young

#52. It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

Shams Tabrizi

#53. The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

Jonathan Glover

#54. Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

Georgette Mosbacher

#55. Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

Emma Bonino

#56. Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

Irina Bokova

#57. Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Gloria Steinem

#58. The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now-inside and out-all I see is beauty.

Katie McGarry

#59. If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place,

Nick Vujicic

#60. I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Rita Dove

#61. Understanding is the first step of accepting!

Ey Ramos

#62. Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

Alan Rufus

#63. Often times in physics we want to talk about empty space as a first step toward nothingness, but nothingness is far more profound than empty space. Nothingness is the absence of everything including space itself.

Rivka Galchen

#64. Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#65. I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I'd be if I'd have gone forward in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#66. If tomorrow morning by some stroke of magic every dazed and benighted soul woke up with the power to take the first step toward pursuing his or her dreams, every shrink in the directory would be out of business.

Steven Pressfield

#67. Recognizing our own craziness is, of course, the first step towards true sanity, Its the beginning our healing, peace, happiness and transcendence.
Therefore ... I'm crazy and I know it! Your turn ...

Jose N. Harris

#68. Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.

Caryl Phillips

#69. Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

Michael N. Castle

#70. I will never again permit myself to forget that isolation is the first step to defeat.

Karen Marie Moning

#71. I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

Ann Hood

#72. I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

Tatiana Maslany

#73. It is the first step to lifelong enlightenment.

Robin S. Sharma

#74. Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Marcel Proust

#75. If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

Victoria Justice

#76. Often the first step in our own resurrection is realizing how dead we really are.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#77. The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.

Zig Ziglar

#78. Excellence is the first step on the stairway to genius.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#79. Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

Nancy Pearcey

#80. If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#81. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

James Gibbons Huneker

#82. The first step to liberty is respecting the rights of others.

Brian McGreevy

#83. The first step in taking control of a nation, Arteth, is the simplest. You find someone to hate.

Brandon Sanderson

#84. Setting goals is the first important step in achieving success in an activity. It's a reminder of what you are working towards.

Peter Vanderkaay

#85. The first step to that kingdom of God within is to find peace within even among chaos.

N.K.David

#86. Doesn't matter if you can dream it or not, all that matters is if you can begin it or not? Take that first step.

Vikrmn

#87. You plant a garden one flower at a time ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

#88. The first step to failure is trying.

Me

#89. A nationalist will say that "it can't happen here," which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.

Timothy Snyder

#90. Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

Kajol

#91. Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

Ellen Hopkins

#92. And admitting that you can't fix yourself - that only God can - is the first step to staying fixed.

Stephen Arterburn

#93. When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us--He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there.

Oswald Chambers

#94. I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.

Will Leitch

#95. All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

P. J. O'Rourke

#96. Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)

Victor Hugo

#97. The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.

Thomas Harris

#98. Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.

Wes Fesler

#99. Ultimately, I believe - because energy is so central to our lives - that a common global project to rewire the world with clean energy could be the first step on a path to global peace and global democracy - even in today's deeply troubled world.

Ross Gelbspan

#100. As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.

Abbi Glines