First Steps Quotes - Page 23

• Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Firsts, Steps

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• Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

  Mickey Hart

  Adventure, Firsts, Forests

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• Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Past, Shapes, Way

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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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• Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Silence, Risk

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• As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Steps, Apollo

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• Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.

  Paul Davies

  Progress, Research, Littles

  "The secret of life won't be cooked up in a chemistry lab" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2013.

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• Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

  Garrison Keillor

  Catholic, Firsts, Steps

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• I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, World

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.402, Running Press

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• The first step is the hardest.

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Motivation, Firsts, Steps

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• The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Ego, Firsts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.666, Routledge

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• The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.

  Eric Barker

  Consistency, Ambitious, Shooting

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• The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.

  Lilias Trotter

  Names, Ideas, Long

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• 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

  People, Firsts, Steps

  Pete Wilson (2011). “Plan B”, p.75, Grupo Nelson

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• When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will, of putting sadness in perspective and gaining control of the situation. . . . Grief has a purpose. Grieving does not mean you are weak It is the first step toward regaining balance and strength. Grieving is part of the tempering process.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Grief, Sadness, Mean

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• When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Freedom, Taken, Eye

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

  Peter Drucker

  Firsts, Steps, Achieve

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

  Peter Drucker

  Understanding, Firsts, Steps

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.236, Routledge

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• If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.

  David Trumble

  Girl, Thinking, Perfect

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• But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Men, Thinking, Bombs

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Meaningful, Believe, Struggle

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• But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Growth, Vision

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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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• 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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• 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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