Top 100 First Step Quotes
#1. The flaw is when the "might makes right" rule vests property rights in whichever local actors can be the most ruthless or terrifying. That first step is the flaw that any market system worthy of the name must correct.
Christopher Heath Wellman
#2. Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
Alexander Herzen
#3. Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.
Jewel
#4. There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.
Adora Svitak
#5. Recognizing that God is the only deity that exists is the first step toward obeying him. He is absolute; there is no one who can offer an alternative truth nor assign humankind different instructions.
James Mikolajczyk
#6. The Appreciation Meditation is the first step towards allowing and encouraging your inner nature to come to the surface of your mind.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#7. The first step is to stop thinking of nature as something far away that we must save from someone else and start seeing it all around us. The first step is to open our eyes to the existence of nature in our daily lives.
Nathanael Johnson
#8. The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.
Roy H. Williams
#9. To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.
Victor Hugo
#10. Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.
Michael Schumacher
#11. Richard Feynman famously said that the first step in discovering a new physical law is to guess it. It
Jason Wilkes
#12. The first step to a solid market analysis is a detailed profile of your customer base.
Michael Colt
#13. Recognizing our shortcomings is a crucial first step on the path to making better decisions, creating better societies, and fixing our institutions.
Dan Ariely
#14. Confusion is the first step toward clarity
Syd Field
#15. Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often ... You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend.
Tom Giaquinto
#16. If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.
Keith Millard
#17. disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet.
Nikki Rowe
#18. Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability
Howard Snell
#19. The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.
Richard E. Blackwelder
#20. I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem.
Randy Pausch
#21. The first step of wisdom is to question everything.
Jim Palmer
#22. If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.
David Trumble
#23. The very first step to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ is the humble admission that we need him. Nothing keeps us out of the kingdom of God more surely than our pride and self-sufficiency.
John R.W. Stott
#24. The moment when you take your first step through the gates of hell, the only thing you will hear is all of creation standing to its feet and applauding and praising God because God has rid the earth of you. That's how not good you are.
Paul Washer
#25. The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.
Boman Irani
#26. Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realizing you've got to make your own way.
Saoirse Ronan
#28. The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].
Tom Duff
#29. A shift, a change of feeling, will bring with certainty a change in your future. This is the very first step in changing your destiny.
Alice Hocker
#30. Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion.
Bauvard
#31. Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. Doing Agile is just a first step; being agile needs to have a totally different mindset, and multidimensional perspectives.
Pearl Zhu
#33. When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.
Nancy Pelosi
#34. The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.
Pam Brown
#36. Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
Anne Campbell
#37. To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.
Vimala Thakar
#38. As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
Arthur Henderson
#39. If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#40. Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.
Julie Garwood
#41. If man is a totally depraved being, can he possibly take the first step in the matter of his return to God?
Arthur W. Pink
#43. Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
George Ayittey
#44. Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
Tim Ferriss
#45. The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.
Fran Lebowitz
#46. The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).
Seth Godin
#47. Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals.
Bryant McGill
#48. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#49. To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
Rosa Parks
#50. The first step in any Journey, Is the belief that the road will open up in front of you even if you cant see it....
Meg Gherson
#51. Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
Daisaku Ikeda
#52. The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
#53. C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada.
Sharon Carstairs
#54. To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.
Wallace D. Wattles
#56. Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.
Nikita Koloff
#57. Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.
Patrick Rothfuss
#58. The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.
Ronald Reagan
#59. Admitting your fears to yourself is the first step in cleansing them from your body. And it's the hardest part.
Brenda Rothert
#60. The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
Zig Ziglar
#61. It is not moving forward that is hard, it gets easier as you go. Once you take the first step, the rest reveal themselves to you.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#62. Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.
Martha Beck
#63. Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.
Jim Talent
#64. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.
Stanley Milgram
#65. I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.
Harry Hopkins
#66. I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.
Steve Jobs
#67. Jon and I talked several times on the phone about the state of the Falcons' organization and it became very clear that if I was going to turn this team around, the first step would be to focus on transforming the culture.
Jon Gordon
#68. Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.
Eliphas Levi
#69. The first step in becoming a global citizen is stripping away the preconceptions of how things should be in order to see things for what they are.
Colleen Mariotti
#70. Every journey starts with the first step and the thousands upon thousands steps before you reach the end. Enjoy every step.
Pamela Cummins
#71. The first step into the realm of giving is ... not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.
Lilias Trotter
#72. If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step.
Edgar Allan Poe
#73. The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Corrie Ten Boom
#74. Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
William Walker Atkinson
#75. Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
Zig Ziglar
#76. In the Forest,' comments Mr. Crawfford, 'ev'ryone comes 'round in a Circle sooner or later. One day, your foot comes down in your own shit. There, as the Indians say, is the first Step upon the Trail to Wisdom.
Thomas Pynchon
#77. The first step is the best step in a journey towards a destination.
Debasish Mridha
#78. The first step of any journey must be taken with daring in your heart. Don't let fear clog your arteries.
T.S. Welti
#79. The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry
#80. The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#81. The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
Aaron Hill
#82. Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.
Terry Goodkind
#83. The EarthEcho World Water Monitoring Challenge is an opportunity for anyone, anywhere to make the first step in taking action for clean water and healthy waterways worldwide.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#84. The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.
Bhikkhu Analayo
#85. Sometimes taking a first step is the biggest and most important journey of them all.
Darlene Craviotto
#86. The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step.
George Saunders
#87. You must walk in the very spacious places under the infinite skies to realize how small you are! This is the first step to start being big!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.
Chris Murray
#89. Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention.
Bryant McGill
#90. Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.
Nido R. Qubein
#91. The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
Charles R. Morris
#92. God is already given you the power to crush down the red & white tape says you can't proceed beyond certain places. He's given you the keys to open all the door were been slammed on your face; now is the time to take your very first step towards your dreams and goals.
Euginia Herlihy
#93. If you believe, then you have already taken the first step towards your achievement.
Rickson Gracie
#94. The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.
Danielle Barone
#95. Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.
Laurence Overmire
#96. A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation ... you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
Seneca The Younger
#97. We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it to speak if only those who already agree with us listen? A first step toward the abolition of war is learning to listen with respect and sympathy.
Nel Noddings
#98. The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.
Neale Donald Walsch
#99. If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.
William James
#100. Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.
Seth Godin
