Top 100 The First Steps Quotes
#1. The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.
Leslie Ludy
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. One of the first steps we should take in knowing God's voice is knowing God's heart.
Craig S. Keener
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
Adrienne Von Speyr
#10. Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.
Alan Rufus
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.
Ron Kaufman
#14. Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.
Shane Claiborne
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.
J.J. Abrams
#21. 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
#22. Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
Muhammad Ali
#23. But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.
Mikhail Bakunin
#24. Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
Patricia Wentworth
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
Peter Drucker
#28. On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
John Vianney
#29. I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way.
Monique Coleman
#30. Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.
Scott Kelly
#31. The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
Vance Havner
#32. Don't get discouraged if you stumble at times. The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#33. Three Steps to Mastery First, read in your field for at least one hour every day. Get up a little earlier in the morning and read for thirty to sixty minutes in a book or magazine that contains information that can help you to be more effective and productive at what you do. Second,
Brian Tracy
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Plan your work and work your plan" we used to say in my first Silicon Valley sales job. Identify the steps you need to take to get where you are going. Without a map who knows where you'll end up! Certainly not where you intended to be.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#38. 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
#39. A word of advice, if I may? Explosions are an excellent way to kill the undead. But you should probably take a few steps back first, kid.
Heather Brewer
#40. I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.
Chuck Palahniuk
#41. I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.
Laurie Graham
#42. The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
Ben Stein
#43. But even I have enough sense to know the words "we have to win" are the first four steps on the road to hell.
Katherine Applegate
#44. For over two centuries (or so historians tell us), it was from the St. Petersburg salons that our country's culture advanced. From those great rooms overlooking the Fontanka Canal, new cuisines, fashions, and ideas all took their first tentative steps into Russian society.
Amor Towles
#45. 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
#46. The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother.
Vikrmn
#47. 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
#49. A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.
William Stanley Jevons
#50. When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.
Pete Wilson
#51. Resistance is the first step to change.
Louise Hay
#52. A woman who's given me a home-a purpose.And for the first time in my life,I-"
"A purpose?" Jennika squints, as she cocks her head and steps closer. "And just what exactly might that be? You planning to take over her garden? Apprentice as an herbal healer? I had much higher hopes for you, Daire.
Alyson Noel
#53. The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.
Roy H. Williams
#54. Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
Ken Blanchard
#55. The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.
Madeleine Albright
#56. The music slowed. She pulled away first, slinking back the required four steps. Merik didn't look away from her face, and he only distantly noticed that, as she pulled away, his Windwitchery seemed to settle. Her skirts stopped swishing, her hair fluttered back to her shoulders.
Susan Dennard
#57. The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.
Steve Backley
#58. The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.
Hugh Prather
#59. 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
#60. Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
Jonathan Swift
#61. The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.
Thomas Brooks
#62. There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the challenges that the country's faced.
Kevin McCarthy
#63. You take the first steps to success when you feel hungry for change.
Debasish Mridha
#64. By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.
Gautama Buddha
#65. 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
#66. She must jump from square to square, right leg first, then left, then both together, and make a show of caring whether or not she steps on a line. She must go on jumping day after day, bearing the burden of time on her shoulders like a cross that grows heavier from day to day.
Milan Kundera
#67. I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
#68. The difference between a signature and an autograph is that the second one has higher face value on a plain paper than the first one even on a cheque.
Vikrmn
#69. 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
#70. Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
Tim Ferriss
#71. The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).
Seth Godin
#72. Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
Daisaku Ikeda
#73. The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
Charles R. Morris
#74. 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
#75. Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.
Laurence Overmire
#76. 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
#77. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic.
Erin Morgenstern
#78. 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
#79. 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
#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. To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
Zhuangzi
#82. Remember that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actually taken the first of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical counterpart.
Napoleon Hill
#83. 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
#84. I've discovered that if I don't take the first step, God generally won't reveal the next step.
Mark Batterson
#85. We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps
and to leave the results up to God.
Alex Harris
#86. I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
Joseph Campbell
#87. Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?
Slavoj Zizek
#88. So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government.
Gideon Rachman
#89. Fortunate are those who take the first steps.
Paulo Coelho
#90. The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.
Richard Goldschmidt
#91. Sometimes, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step, you need to be the one to drive the change.
Robin Sharma
#92. Surely a program of incremental reforms, of cautious steps, is the wisest way to proceed? You show xtraordinary erudition for an eighth-stratum, Archivist. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps." We
David Mitchell
#93. 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
#94. Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.
John Bytheway
#95. 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
#96. [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
#97. Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"
Dwight Longenecker
#98. The beginning of a project or anything is what makes me feel vulnerable. How to take that first step. And the ending of anything. How to release what you know and leap into the unknown.
Regina Taylor
#99. Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great.
Tony Robbins
#100. I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
Larry David
