First Steps Quotes - Page 14

• Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.

  Vera Nazarian

  Eye, Evil, Apathy

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue.

  Ashley Bryan

  Dream, Successful, Space

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• The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

  Dillon Lane

  Growing Up, Kids, Cooking

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• When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that's when you have some power over it. That's the first step. Otherwise you're just withering away, you're like a burning piece of paper getting smaller and smaller.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Burning, Pieces, Paper

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• We need to get good processes in place, we need to use them, and then we need to impose good sanctions that make our campuses safe. This case is encouraging because the first step to the solution is empathy.

  Michele Landis Dauber

  Empathy, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.

  Mastin Kipp

  Inspiring, Running, Yoga

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• The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.

  Darren Hardy

  Choices, Want, Firsts

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Ultimately, I believe - because energy is so central to our lives - that a common global project to rewire the world with clean energy could be the first step on a path to global peace and global democracy - even in today's deeply troubled world.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Believe, Democracy, Energy

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• The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Way, Firsts, Steps

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• Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Enlightenment, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Father, Heaven

  Richard Baxter, John Wesley (1817). “The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory”, p.86

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• Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

  Daymond John

  Reality, Ideas, Firsts

  Twitter post from Oct 5, 2015

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• Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  Irina Bokova

  Education, Children, Future

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• In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Availability, Demand, Firsts

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.229, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

  Amy Neftzger

  Admitting, Firsts, Steps

  Amy Neftzger (2014). “The Orchard of Hope”, p.84, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step.”  This may be because he was ordered to speak circumspectly.  According to science writer Nigel Calder, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director of the CERN lab, told a German newspaper that “I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Clouds, Political, Important

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• The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

  Leslie Ludy

  Romance, Stories, Firsts

  Leslie Ludy (2009). “Authentic Beauty, Going Deeper: A Study Guide for the Set-Apart Young Woman”, p.71, Multnomah

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  If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place.

  Nick Vujicic

  True Friend, World, Firsts

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• The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strong, Honesty, Greatness

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" by Louis Klopsch, (p. 133), 1896.

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• Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.

  Peter Drucker

  Animal, Men, Survival

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Communication, Firsts, Steps

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• To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

  Jewel

  Writing, Knowing, Goal

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