Thousand Steps Quotes

#1. You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

Hsu Yun

#2. I swear there must be like some secret code. All mysterious ancient temples must have a minimum of at least seven thousand steps to the front door.

Julie Kagawa

#3. When toward the Devil's Hose we tread,
Woman's a thousand steps behind.
[Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus
Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.

Max Lucado

#6. Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Rumi

#8. It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

Rupert Sheldrake

#10. Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.

Carl Henegan

#11. The love of men is a frigid thing, a mountain stream only three steps from the ice. We are his. Oh Stormfather ... we are his. It is but a thousand days, and the Everstorm comes.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
...
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody's place in line.

Wislawa Szymborska

#13. I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

Rumi

#14. Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

Emily Rose

#15. A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

Larry Wall

#16. There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth.

Anne Cameron

#18. It was a good weekend. Five thousand words of Carry On. Fish tacos with radish and shredded cabbage. Only two more conversations about Wren. And Sunday afternoon brought Levi back, taking her front steps two at a time.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. Take one step towards excellence,
and success will take ten towards you.
Take ten steps towards excellence,
and success will take a hundred towards you.
Take a hundred steps towards excellence,
and success will take a thousand towards you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. You cannot expect to be victorious if the day begins only in your own strength.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#21. It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Renata Adler

#22. I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that that exclamation had been made a thousand times before in all Russian novels of high life. It was that alone that stopped me.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.

Alan Cohen

#24. We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don't need to make a big leap - you - need to take a thousand small steps.

James Jorash

#25. I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.

Wesley Clark

#26. The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Philip Guston

#27. The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Mignon McLaughlin

#28. Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

Sigmund Freud

#29. That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal Mercedez pulls up into a puddle of blood, and out steps a twenty-five karat blonde transvestite with a two dollar wristwatch.

Tom Waits

#31. I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians.

Sydney Sierota

#32. We have made the world dance as we sang for three thousand years. That is difficult habit to break, as I have learned while dancing to your song. You must dance free, and even the best intentioned of my sisters may well try to guide your steps as I once did.

Robert Jordan

#33. And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Henry Lawson

#34. If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Karl Marx

#35. It's not what Ryodan does," Jo says slowly. "It's more what he is." Her eyes take on a serious sheen. "He's like, unbelievably brilliant, ten steps ahead of everyone else all the time."
Bullshit. He's not that smart. I beat him at Triad. Once. About ten thousand years ago.

Karen Marie Moning

#36. Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.

Chloe Thurlow

#37. All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

W.C. Fields

#38. I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.

Fred Rogers