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• 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

  Football, Mistake, Firsts

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• Have we been guilty of declaring, 'I've been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step-tomorrow'? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Thinking, Forever, Firsts

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• The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Faith, Moving, Journey

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.17, Penguin

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• The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

  Joseph Campbell

  Illumination, Solitude, Noble

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.142, New World Library

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• Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

  Bell Hooks

  Communication, Choices, Next Steps

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• The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Struggle, Book

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 2 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Kyoto Protocol, Long, Leader

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• The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.

  George Hodges (theologian)

  Happiness, Firsts, Steps

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• Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.

  Bob Proctor

  Imagination, Goal, Creative

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 03, 2011

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• The first step to greatness is to be honest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness, Firsts, Steps

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons”, p.311

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• The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

  Zig Ziglar

  Doe, Firsts, Steps

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• If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Men, Law

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.316, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Positive Thinking, Firsts

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• The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

  Tryon Edwards

  Religious, Errors, Grace

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 517), 1891.

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• The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

  Matt Drudge

  Firsts, Steps, Snooping

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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• It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Firsts, Steps

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2014

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• To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Mind, Awful, Scripture

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “Sovereignty of God”, p.225, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Firsts, Steps

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.95, Penguin

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• Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

  Zedd

  Being Yourself, Believe, People

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• The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is for people who have knowledge of these substances to share it, "coming out" about their own experiences. Drug education should be honest and present a balanced picture of risks and benefits.

  Rick Doblin

  People, Drug, Risk

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• Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

  Ray Comfort

  Believe, Men, Understanding

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• I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

  Robert David Steele

  Country, Evil, Republic

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• Don’t get discouraged if you stumble at times. The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Trying, Firsts, Steps

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• Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Knowing, Firsts, Steps

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• Confusion is the first step toward clarity

  Syd Field

  Confusion, Firsts, Steps

  Syd Field (2008). “The Screenwriter's Workbook: Exercises and Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating a Successful Screenplay, Newly Revised and Updated”, p.134, Delta

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