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• Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

  Jim Talent

  Firsts, Steps, Needed

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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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• 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

  Art, Creativity, Suffering

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• Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.

  Seth Godin

  Moving, Lasts, Firsts

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• 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

  Jesus, Believe, Simple

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• The truth is, you are your own “special someone,” and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

  Deborah King

  Loving Yourself, Finding Love, Special

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• Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth

  Ala Bashir

  Kissing, Drawing, Challenges

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• Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.

  Darren McFadden

  Athletic, Training, Republic

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• I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

  J. J. Abrams

  Recovery, Thinking, Admitting

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• THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.

  Neville Goddard

  Believe, Self, Desire

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Neville Goddard Collection”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Past, Significant Change

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 27, 2014

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• The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Car, Secret

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• At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fall, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

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• Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Ruins, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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• A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

  Orson Scott Card

  Journey, Library, World

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• Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Father, Heaven

  Richard Baxter, John Wesley (1817). “The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory”, p.86

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• 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

  Travel, Journey, Feet

  Vimala Thakar (1986). “Blossoms of Friendship”, p.58, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

  Gelett Burgess

  Beauty, Land, Ugly

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• 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

  Thinking, Want, Way

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.218, Penguin

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• The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

  Aaron Hill

  Men, Path, Firsts

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• The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.

  Harry Browne

  Important, Realization, Safe

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• The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive, Firsts, Steps

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• We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

  Walter Cronkite

  World Government, Police, Historical

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

  Jewel

  Writing, Knowing, Goal

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• To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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