Small Step Sayings

#1. And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

Bill Joy

#2. inferred by the pattern to either side, the small pyramidal bumps rising from the flat steel with their crisp edges and flecks of paint. Holston lifted an old boot to an old step, pressed down,

Hugh Howey

#3. 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

#4. Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run
each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away
each a small separation, a small distancing.

Lillian B. Rubin

#5. One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy Day

#6. All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

Paulo Coelho

#7. A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

Liz Becker

#8. God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.

Dillon Burroughs

#9. Replace "This project is so big and important" with "I can take one small step.

Neil A. Fiore

#10. When you have the chance to right a wrong, in whatever small or large way, you have a duty to step up and do it.

Steven D. Wolf

#11. A small step is much more powerful than the mightiest intentions.

Abhishek Kumar

#12. Be kind to yourself and congratulate yourself for small success.A small step cover a big distance-enjoy the journey of life.

Andy Andrews

#13. Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning.

Craig Stadler

#14. To be happy a woman had to think hard, during long silent hours, about how to make each small step forward.

Fatema Mernissi

#15. Our heart mends as our inner self - the central or innermost part of our identity - is wrapped around the Light inside of us, rather than around the people who have harmed us. This one small step changes the way we see things.

Suzanne Eller

#16. Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.
The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.

Louis Sachar

#17. Progressing at a snail's pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

Daisaku Ikeda

#19. A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Dave Matthews

#21. And perhaps this is what Tukten knows - that the journey to Dolpo, step by step and day by day, is the Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus, the Tao, the Way, the Path, but no more so than small events of days at home.

Peter Matthiessen

#22. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

Pope Francis

#23. The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

Julia Cameron

#24. We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed.

Justin Bieber

#25. Greatest discoveries start with one small step

Mayur Ramgir

#26. We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

John Trudell

#27. The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#28. All of this, you and me, is brand new, you're right. Let's just take this one small step at a time."
"These small steps include sex, right?

Karina Halle

#29. The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

Regina Brett

#30. A small step forward is better than one back.

Jeff Talarigo

#31. No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Channing Pollock

#32. President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

Bob Beauprez

#33. She understood she was far from perfect, but to even imagine that Jesus could step off the throne of heaven to die for someone so small and full of sin, it was hard to understand

Philip Cook

#34. (to father) Aren't you glad that you've never had to buy vegeterian cookery books as the first small step on the road to getting inside someone's knickers?
(father) ... however vegeterian recepies you have read, you still have more fun than we were ever allowed.

Nick Hornby

#35. The literary scene is a kind of Medusa's raft, small and sinking, and one's instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

John Updike

#36. Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open

Julia Cameron

#37. Sometimes the signs and signals of the non-language speaking world are not very clear. Then we have to walk in trust, move forward step by small step, until we are sure of the proper path.

Elaine Seiler

#38. At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.

Anne Ursu

#39. Even a tiny forward step is a step in the right direction, no matter how small.

Khloe Kardashian

#40. Learn to think BIG but start small. All the big projects eventually started with a single step.

Petronela Zainuddin

#41. Ben Says: A small step each day leads to big results in your life. What you do today can better you tomorrow.

Timothy Pina

#42. The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.

Barbara Sher

#43. Some of the things that contributed to my positive attitude were rejoicing, smiling and acknowledging every small step I had made.

Amy Rankin

#44. She craned her neck, glared at me through the small opening, and took a step back.
And then she kicked my door in.
Was it any wonder I was falling for her?"
"Chapter 24

Alyxandra Harvey

#45. Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies.

Eduardo Galeano

#46. It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.

Anne Sexton

#47. Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

#48. Love is a decision," I answered. "Choose your love and then love your choice". Shared values and attitudes are much more important to a long term compatibility than common activities or backgrounds. One day at a time, one small step at a time, and it's suddenly 36 years later. The

Michelle Mras

#49. It is their constant carping that has really made them old. Age is but another step in the natural cycle of life. We are growing old from the moment of our birth.

Bertrice Small

#50. As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

Charles Bolden

#51. This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.

Ryu Murakami

#52. I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.

Thomas S. Monson

#53. Trust is both an attitude and an action. Your first small step must be followed by another, and another, until you realize that God has indeed made a way for you to know him personally. The more you act on your faith in God, the more you will see of his way for you.

Henry Cloud

#54. Entrepreneurship is about formulating a plan and then making choices, both big and small, that will help you to reach the next step of that plan. As

Patrick J. McGinnis

#55. We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

Danielle Collobert

#56. Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.

Tony Robbins

#57. Fabulous Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He smiled maliciously, then started stomping with abandon through the beds of blossoms, a chorus of tinny, shrill screams punctuating every step.

Kiersten White

#58. Few do, at first. A small step, the one that determines destiny often is.

Christie Golden

#59. Langdon held her tighter. You start small. You take that first tiny step. you trust me.

Dan Brown

#60. One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it.

Graham Hill

#61. Sometimes, we have to face our greatest fear to realize it wasn't really a fear after all - just a small hole we needed to step around.

Kelly Elliott

#62. The distance between one historical period and another is a very small step in comparison to the huge metaphysical gap we must leap to understand the perspective of another person in any time or place.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#63. Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us.
Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

Jack Kornfield

#64. Don't try to rush progress. Remember
a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.

Kara Goucher

#65. ... each day provided some tiny step forward, some steps so small you would miss them if you weren't looking. I'm always looking- eager to witness that next miracle.

Liz Becker

#66. Here we go. Another step. Small, bold steps. That's how you change. You must take another step.

Brendon Burchard

#67. The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Satish Kumar

#68. Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

Susan Collins

#69. Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

Og Mandino

#70. When in doubt, just take the next small step

Paulo Coelho

#71. It's not perfect, this thing between us, like trying to bring the two circles of our lives together, and living in the small, tight space where they intersect, everything else pushed to the circumference, until we step back inside our very different, very separate orbs.

Leylah Attar

#72. It was too small a step,
somehow, too puny a thing to settle for after having lost so
much. So the courtship continued, and the more Tom came to
despise his job, the more stubbornly he defended his own inertia;
and the more inert he became, the more he despised himself.

Paul Auster

#73. Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet.

Hermann Hesse

#74. Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.

John C. Maxwell

#75. You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

George Konrad

#76. If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.

Martha Beck

#77. If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

Anton Chekhov

#78. Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

Mark Twain

#79. Leaders are not the ones with the right position or a proclaimed or given title, the actual leaders are the people who start acting, who step up, who do change, no matter in what way or how small!

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#80. There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.

Ellen Langer

#81. The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a (small) heap of earth; the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step.

Lao-Tzu

#82. As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Albert Einstein

#83. A good way to take a baby step into the world of animal rights is to make a list of small things you can do to help your issue and work your way up to the big things. Make a promise to do one thing on your list each month.

Jenna Morasca

#84. Visualize what you want out of life and think big. Don't feel undeserving. We're all deserving of living our dreams - some of us realize it and some don't. You're not doing anyone any favors by living small. Embrace these truths and step up. The world is waiting.

Jillian Michaels

#85. I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year ... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step ... we are headed to that direction.

Kangana Ranaut

#86. A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Herb Caen

#87. We build confidence by daring to step outside our comfort zone in small increments.

Sam Owen

#88. Sometimes, you gotta start small to fix what's broke. Even if it's hard work, it's worth each little step if it's something you love.

Laura Ware

#89. When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

J. Allen Hynek

#90. Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

Tim Ferriss

#91. If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#92. 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

#93. For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Thomas A Kempis

#94. From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Billy Graham

#95. Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

Jim Rohn

#96. Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.

Frederick Lenz

#97. When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions every day #3 ask advice from a number of spiritual counselors then you can step out peacefully knowing that pleasing God is all that matters. America was built on this attitude.

Mary Engelbreit

#98. It came to be believed that society could be understood using the same methods that are used to understand machines, and from there it was a small step to think that society is in fact a kind of machine.

John N. Gray

#99. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao-Tzu

#100. Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

Jonatan Martensson