First Steps Quotes

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

  Steve Jobs

  Taken, Thinking, Firsts

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• The first step to becoming is to will it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mother Teresa (2011). “A Simple Path”, p.5, Random House

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• The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

  Chauncey Depew

  Motivation, Firsts, Steps

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• The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Important, Firsts, Steps

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• Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beginners, Firsts, Steps

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• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Change, Acceptance, Second Chance

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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• The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.

  Barbara Sher

  Love, Marriage, Way

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• When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

  Salman Rushdie

  Taken, Firsts, Steps

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.223, Macmillan

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• There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Memories, Independent

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• And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

  Sarah Dessen

  Dad, Firsts, Steps

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.255, Penguin UK

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• I don't always know where this life is going. i can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.

  Katie Davis

  Knowing, Path, Firsts

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

  William Osler

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.76, ACP Press

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• He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

  James Huneker

  Wisdom, Stupid, Knowledge

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Challenges

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.62, Penguin

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• The first step is to believe that it's possible. Once I had a taste of success, you start to believe in it a little more.

  Jarome Iginla

  Believe, Littles, Taste

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• Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

  Indira Gandhi

  Acting, Small Steps, Prejudice

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• If you believe, then you have already taken the first step towards your achievement.

  Rickson Gracie

  Believe, Taken, Achievement

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• Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

  Terry Pratchett

  Firsts, Steps, Every Step

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• Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Firsts, Steps

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• [On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Hands, Legends, Firsts

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• What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

  Wendell Phillips

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.282

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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