Steps Forward Quotes

• Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

  Brian Tracy

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jun 26, 2014

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• If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

  Nora Roberts

  Motivation, Maximizing, Steps

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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• Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

  Thomas A. Edison

  Perseverance, Determination, Failure

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• The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Live Life, Leaving, Want

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• Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Important, May

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• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

  Nora Roberts

  Goal, Want, Maximizing

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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• In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

  James Arthur Ray

  Two, Choices, Defining Moments

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• You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Spiritual, Encouragement

  "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.

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• Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it. Just stand there trembling, not moving. Assuming the worst that can happen. Or we step forward into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.

  Sandra Oh

  Moving, Choices, Yang

  "Fictional character: Dr. Cristina Yang". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Fear (of the Unknown)", 2014), (2005 - ).

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• It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

  Louis Sachar

  Persistence, Small Steps, Leap

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• If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

  Nora Roberts

  Confidence, Business, Answers

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.

  Martha Beck

  Powerful, Moving, Small Changes

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• By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Achieving The Impossible, Strive

  Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin in Paolo Novaresio "The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present", October 1, 1996.

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• By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Taken, Men, Humanity

  Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin in Paolo Novaresio "The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present", October 1, 1996.

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• I want to continue to take steps forward.

  Dwyane Wade

  Want, Steps

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Winning isn't the end of the world

  David Pleat

  Letting Go, Being Single, Breast Cancer

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• Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

  Chris Murray

  Firsts, Steps, Impossible

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  What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Courage, Buddhist

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.111, Middleway Press

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• Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Adventure, Doors, Behind You

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.211

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• To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degrees of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

  Carrie Brownstein

  New Experiences, Fearless, Fans

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.

  Karl Mannheim

  Taken, Ideas, Long

  Karl Mannheim (2013). “Ideology and Utopia”, p.68, Routledge

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• If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.

  Herbert von Karajan

  Steps, Asks, Ifs

  "The Book of Musical Anecdotes". Book by Norman Lebrecht, December 1985.

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• In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let’s take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

  John Hagel

  Order, Creating, Design

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