Quotes About First Steps

#1. The problem with all-or-nothing thinking is that it stops people even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week.

Michael Greger

#2. The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

Larry Dixon

#3. Why are people so afraid of thinking? Why don't they ever leave time to reflect? There's nothing wrong with tranquility; nor emptiness, vertigo, or even unhappiness. I think that these things are the first steps to precede the birth of a new thought. This is why I like to read.

Almudena Solana

#4. One of the first steps we should take in knowing God's voice is knowing God's heart.

Craig S. Keener

#5. My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.

Paul Sabatier

#6. Everyone has an idea, but it's taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

Daymond John

#7. Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

Thomas Mann

#8. The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

Twyla Tharp

#9. Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#11. You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Ben Stein

#12. All healthy babies eventually walk, but we treat those first steps like someone has just risen out of a wheelchair at a healing revival. "He's walking! It's a miracle!

Jim Gaffigan

#13. Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

Constantin Stanislavski

#14. to the depths of your awareness and to the unknown. The first steps are willingness and courage. Five minutes per day is enough to get started. Even a one-minute conscious pause will make a difference. Beginning with the simplest form of meditation can establish discipline, which focuses the mind

Myra Lewin

#15. You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence

Irene Gut Opdyke

#16. The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#17. Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

Paul Merton

#18. Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps."
Are you," I said. "Then tell me how."
You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

Jodi Picoult

#19. You give people hope, Yukiko. The strength at the heart of all strength. The steps you take now, the first steps- they are always the hardest. But the footprints you leave in the earth behind you will be followed by thousands.

Jay Kristoff

#20. I look at my career and I feel like I haven't even started yet. I feel like I haven't even begun to shift the planet. But I'm so excited because Rock of Ages is one of the first steps of that new phase in my life.

Mia Michaels

#21. They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

D.H. Lawrence

#22. At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Lemony Snicket

#23. We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.

Larry The Cable Guy

#24. For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#25. I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest.

Lawrence Hill

#26. I don't know about the first steps in a geography of loss, and I know that it's unmapped. I know that we all have to go by ourselves.

Wayne Earl

#27. We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS ... We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out.

Ted Cruz

#28. It was a sense of privilege and mute wonder, as though he'd witnessed one of those small, everyday miracles of spring. Like a licked-clean foal taking its first steps on wobbly legs. Or a new butterfly pushing scrunched, damp wings from a chrysalis.

Tessa Dare

#29. Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps, fill in the colors of happiness, correct the mistakes with eraser of love and forgiveness; thus, one dream project is accomplished. Create such masterpieces just like that.

Vikrmn

#30. The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. With an eye toward changing the way millions grow older, Novartis, the $260 billion Swiss pharmaceutical giant, has begun taking the first steps to position a version of rapamycin as the first true anti-aging drug.

Anonymous

#32. Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.

James Shikwati

#33. As a psychotherapist I see that nothing does as much for an individual's self-esteem as becoming aware of and accepting disowned parts of the self. The, first steps of healing and growth are awareness and acceptance - consciousness and integration. They are the fountainhead of personal development.

Nathaniel Branden

#34. While evidence says that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, they're probably all on first steps.

Terry Pratchett

#35. First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Aberjhani

#36. It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.

Bill McKibben

#37. Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.

Ken Robinson

#38. You take the first steps to success when you feel hungry for change.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

Eric Kandel

#40. Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.

Paul Davies

#41. Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?

Tony Robbins

#42. Mob psychology, Sunny said, remembering a term Klaus had taught her shortly before she took her first steps.

Lemony Snicket

#43. One of the first steps toward an integral postmodernity is the development and establishment of a genuine environmental ethics, or a moral and ethical stance to nonhuman holons.

Ken Wilber

#44. I am uncertain whether I took my first steps on clay soil or sand, but I know I have long wondered if home is the place from which we come or the place we are headed.

Christie Purifoy

#45. Strasser hoped to replace the Programme of 1920. In November, he took the first steps in composing the Community's own draft programme. It advocated a racially integrated German nation at the heart of a central European customs union, the basis of a united states of Europe.

Ian Kershaw

#46. Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard ... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.

Victoria Alexander

#47. One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

Israelmore Ayivor

#48. In any medium, I also start out assuming - even planning - that I'll delete the first thing I do, whether it's a paragraph or the first few rows of a scarf. That makes those first steps far less precious and therefore less intimidating.

Kim Piper Werker

#49. Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

Richard Baxter

#50. The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#51. The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

Barbara Kingsolver

#52. Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

Gerald Brommer

#53. Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

Peter L. Berger

#54. Casting people as victims works very effectively to keep them powerless. By keeping them focussed on all the bad in their lives, it leaves them eaten up with resentment for an entire lifetime and prevents them from taking those first steps toward an exceptional life.

Genevieve Davis

#55. He drank life from these breasts now dry, and he took his first steps in this garden, grasping these fingers that are now like trembling reeds.

Kahlil Gibran

#56. Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.

Maya Rodale

#57. Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

Paulo Coelho

#58. One of the first steps toward successful leadership in the human realm is asking ourselves this question, "When people draw near us, do they recognize that we know God?

Teresa Hampton

#59. The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

Dillon Lane

#60. We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

Mother Teresa

#61. An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

William Labov

#62. [When it comes to writing]The first steps that are the hardest. Mine were accidental in a away. I wrote what I wanted on a blog & the rest is history.

A.J. Walters

#63. You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

Thomas E. Mann

#64. Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn't stay still. Why stay still now?

Rob Liano

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

Leslie Ludy

#66. That night, as he bounded up the steps and out of the church basement, nobody in the room could have imagined that they had just seen the man who, a decade from now, would become the first black president of the United States. NEW

Isabel Wilkerson

#67. Faith doesn't always come naturally but as we take those steps of faith, we notice little by little that our faith has grown and it isn't as hard as we first thought.

Jacqueline Winslow

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. An original first pressing of Coltrane's Giant Steps,

A.E. Via

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

Iyanla Vanzant

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

Adrienne Von Speyr

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

Alan Rufus

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. I run behind her, letting her stay a few steps ahead of me so if she happens to fall I'll be there to laugh at her first and then help her up afterwards.

J.A. Redmerski

#77. On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing and my small suitcase decorated with neon flower stickers unpacked-and wandered towards the upside-down school bus I'd spied from an upstairs window.

Mitch Cullin

#78. Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

Nawal El Saadawi

#79. Start close in,
don't take
the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don't want to take.

David Whyte

#80. The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

Ron Kaufman

#81. Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

Shane Claiborne

#82. You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach!

Israelmore Ayivor

#83. When I first came out, I thought, I want to walk like a real woman, I don't want to do mincing steps. And there was some girl I saw walking up Holloway Road in Islington who had this long languid walk and I thought, that's what I like, so I incorporated her walk into mine.

Eddie Izzard

#84. Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.

Jean Kilbourne

#85. The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

L. Ron Hubbard

#86. There is nobody as brave as a baby taking his/her first non-stop 5 steps alone from Mummy's hand to daddy's hand ... trust me on that

Sameh Elsayed

#87. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.

David Mitchell

#88. To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.

Dave Matthews

#89. One step at a time, and the first of those steps was to defeat the stoneskin, the magical defense that could turn any blade - but only for a certain number of attacks.

R.A. Salvatore

#90. The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want.

Kevin Stirtz

#91. I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

Mal Peet

#92. Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

Biz Stone

#93. The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.

Benedict Of Nursia

#94. The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Denis Waitley

#95. In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

Antonio Gates

#96. In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

Ravi Zacharias

#97. I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

J.J. Abrams

#98. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

Maya Angelou

#99. Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Muhammad Ali

#100. I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

Hallie Ephron