First Steps Quotes - Page 30

• Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.

  John Bingham

  Running, Distance, Moving

  John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.105, Rodale

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• Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.

  Scott Walker

  Couple, Use, Unions

  "Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union-Busting Bill in Wisconsin" by Mary Bottari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2014.

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• As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

  Arthur Henderson

  Equality, Rights, Firsts

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• Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.

  John Piper

  Father, Love You, Compassion

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.61, Baker Academic

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• Here is the first step toward success. It's a basic step. It can't be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.

  David J. Schwartz

  Believe, Firsts, Succeed

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.20, Penguin

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• What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?

  Michael Gerber

  Goal, Progress, Gone

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• How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

  George Leonard

  Journey, Needs, Firsts

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• The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.

  John Locke

  Children, Mind, Noble

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.51

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• What I've done in this older part of my life is I started foundation called 261 Fearless, named after my old ,1967 Boston Marathon, bib number.I thought we could create training and a communicative, non-judgmental platform, in a movement to let them know they're not alone. Then fearless women can reach out to help women who are fearful and take that first step using the vehicle of running because it's transformational. It works for every woman every time.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Running, Boston, Numbers

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  Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Law, Justice, May

  "Building a Life of Value: Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us". Book by Jason Merchey, 2005.

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• First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

  Aberjhani

  Motivational, Taken, Moving Forward

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

  e. e. cummings

  Reality, Firsts, Steps

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• Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

  Frank Herbert

  Knowing, Steps, Firsts

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.44, Penguin

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• When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

  Philippa Gregory

  Want Something, Unhappy, Desire

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.

  Jacques Derrida

  Opening Up, Risk, Gestures

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• Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 11: "The Thinkers", p. 158, 1970.

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• 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

  Thinking, Firsts, Steps

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