Top 100 Sayings About The First Step
#1. If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Karr
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Every journey starts with the first step and the thousands upon thousands steps before you reach the end. Enjoy every step.
Pamela Cummins
#6. 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
#7. The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Corrie Ten Boom
#8. Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
William Walker Atkinson
#9. Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
Zig Ziglar
#10. 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
#11. The first step is the best step in a journey towards a destination.
Debasish Mridha
#12. The first step of any journey must be taken with daring in your heart. Don't let fear clog your arteries.
T.S. Welti
#13. The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry
#14. 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
#15. The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
Aaron Hill
#16. Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.
Terry Goodkind
#17. 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.
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. The first step in helping a suffering person is to acknowledge that the pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.
Philip Yancey
#21. Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Live. If you live, God will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation. Everyone knows this, but no one takes the first step, perhaps for fear of being called insane.
Paulo Coelho
#25. The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
Margaret Thatcher
#26. The first step in changing your world is to believe that it can be changed.
M. Gayle
#27. Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.
Fethullah Gulen
#29. Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
Bill Walsh
#30. I doubted it. Some people say trying is all that matters, but unfortunately it's only the first step. Sometimes you're got to catch a break and win one, too. You've got to stand up on the bar and do the antler dance. Plus, as I now knew as well as anyone, people really suck at consoling themselves.
James Patterson
#31. The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.
Neale Donald Walsch
#32. 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
#33. Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.
Laurence Overmire
#34. The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.
Danielle Barone
#35. If you believe, then you have already taken the first step towards your achievement.
Rickson Gracie
#36. The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
Charles R. Morris
#37. Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.
Nido R. Qubein
#38. Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention.
Bryant McGill
#39. Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.
Chris Murray
#40. 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
#41. Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.
Nikita Koloff
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
Daisaku Ikeda
#46. 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
#47. To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
Rosa Parks
#48. The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).
Seth Godin
#49. The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.
Fran Lebowitz
#50. Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
Tim Ferriss
#52. 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
#53. Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.
Julie Garwood
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
Anne Campbell
#58. The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.
Pam Brown
#59. Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion.
Bauvard
#60. The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].
Tom Duff
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. The first step of wisdom is to question everything.
Jim Palmer
#66. I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem.
Randy Pausch
#67. 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
#68. Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability
Howard Snell
#69. disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet.
Nikki Rowe
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Confusion is the first step toward clarity
Syd Field
#73. The first step to a solid market analysis is a detailed profile of your customer base.
Michael Colt
#74. Richard Feynman famously said that the first step in discovering a new physical law is to guess it. It
Jason Wilkes
#75. 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
#76. To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.
Victor Hugo
#77. The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.
Roy H. Williams
#78. 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
#79. The Appreciation Meditation is the first step towards allowing and encouraging your inner nature to come to the surface of your mind.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Anastasia reached the attic stairs, slowed down, and listened. She knew that the first step to asking about secrets is seeing how much you can find out by sneaking.
N.D. Wilson
#84. The first step is to believe that it's possible. Once I had a taste of success, you start to believe in it a little more.
Jarome Iginla
#85. The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.
Jimmy Carter
#86. A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.
Young-Ha Kim
#87. Are you disappointed with society? If you are,
I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.
Billy Graham
#88. Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.
Elizabeth O'Connor
#89. Just believing, just having a molecule of faith
that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#90. The first step toward success is a deep driving desire.
Debasish Mridha
#91. The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Denis Diderot
#92. Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.
Israelmore Ayivor
#93. And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.
Plato
#94. Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Robert Collier
#95. Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.
Dennis E. Adonis
#96. The first step in Choosing is Prioritizing.
Todd Stocker
#97. Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
Ken Blanchard
#98. Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.
Rajneesh
#99. To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
Robert Southey
#100. Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
C.S. Goto
