Steps Quotes - Page 4

• When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

  Laozi

  Country, Fall, Body

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• The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Mean, Goal

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2012

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• If you have faith in God, if you believe that God can use you, if you are willing to take a step of faith here and there, then God can do incredible things through you.

  Greg Laurie

  Faith, Christian, Believe

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• A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

  David Jeremiah

  Life, Heart, Calling

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• Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Block, Moving, Communication

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.

  Vijay Singh

  Journey, Years, Gone

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• The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Good Man, Stones

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• There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Climbing, Flying, Feelings

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• I have a strong hips and groin. It's the leg speed, the way I approach the ball. My first step is not very hard, but my second is explosive.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Strong, Balls, Legs

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• If you can't smile and have fun, you're in trouble. So if somebody in the stands says hello, I'm going to say hello back. Why shouldn't I? I know what I'm doing in this game. I'm still going to be ready to hit when I step in the box.

  Carlos Delgado

  Fun, Games, Hello

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• Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re-examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.

  Fitzhugh Dodson

  People, Goal, Important

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• Sometimes, with two strikes and two outs, I step off the mound. People are yelling, they're yelling really loud. I step off because I want to feel it. You've got all that adrenaline going, you've got that rush. People think I'm thinking about something, but I'm just trying to listen to everyone and feed off it.

  Eric Gagne

  Thinking, Two, Yelling

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• I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.

  Ilya Kovalchuk

  Couple, Player, Years

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• My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Memories, Father, Teaching

  "Autobiography". Book by John Stuart Mill, 1960.

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• I was never afraid to step out and make a decision. It might have been the wrong decision. I'm not afraid to tell somebody if I think they're wrong, as long as I know that I'm right. I would always try to make sure that I was right and then I'd voice my opinion.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Thinking, Voice, Long

  "A Portrait of Valor". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 5, 2001.

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• Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.

  Hines Ward

  Mom, Get Better, Trying

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• Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

  Michael Mullen

  Military, Moral Fiber, Democracy

  USNA Commencement Address in Annapolis, Maryland, May 23, 2008.

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• My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.

  Brian Urlacher

  Mom, Dad, Heart

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• In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

  Antonio Gates

  Basketball, Firsts, Separation

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• Anybody can be good when things are going good, but a real player steps up when things are going bad.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Real, Player, Step Up

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• Once I step on the court in San Antonio, I feel the support in the air.

  Manu Ginobili

  Air, Support, San Antonio

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• Every time I step on the court I want to be up there with the best.

  Jason Terry

  Want, Court

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• Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life.  It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step.

  Nhat Hanh

  Energy, Way, Daily Life

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

  Randy Pausch

  Small Steps, Lists, Helping

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

  Andy Roddick

  Team, Home, Player

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