First Steps Quotes - Page 17

• Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Practice, People

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• Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.

  James Shikwati

  Firsts, Steps, Beggar

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• ... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.

  Gertrude Diamant

  People, Understanding, Suffering

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• We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Order, Comforting, Confusing

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Moving, Home, Never Quit

  "Spring Fling Is Not Important". Interview with Brooke McCord, www.wonderlandmagazine.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.

  William S. Burroughs

  Moving, Home, Want

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead”, p.63, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

  Harry Hopkins

  Dream, Country, Priorities

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• I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!

  Phil Hellmuth

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last  There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Real, Deeds Done

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• The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Moving, Our World

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• Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.

  Katie Davis

  Knowing, Path, Firsts

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• The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Brother, Boys, Men

  "Aids to Scoutmastership". Book by Robert Baden-Powell, 1919.

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• Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

  Mason Cooley

  Firsts, Steps, Belief

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• Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.

  Julie Garwood

  Flirting, Men, Long

  Julie Garwood (2010). “The Clayborne Brides: One Pink Rose, One White Rose, One Red Rose”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Goal, Today

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 21, 2014

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• I've met Obama a few times, and I think Obama's a quality human being, but I think that he finds himself in a position where your actions are largely dictated by things out of your control. I'm not giving him a pass for not being more courageous, but I do think the entire system needs an overhaul and taking money out of politics would be a really good first step.

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Giving, Quality

  "Shepard Fairey on the Future of Political Art and Whether Obama Lived Up to His 'Hope' Poster". Interview with Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2015.

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• The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

  Robyn Davidson

  Travel, Decision, Firsts

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.254, A&C Black

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• I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Book, Communication, Reading

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• The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Needs, Firsts

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• The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
  selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
  unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Appreciation, Selfish

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

  Susan Forward

  Self, Understanding, Nagging

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• Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Firsts, Bears, Steps

  Patricia Wentworth (1958). “The Alington inheritance”

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• The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.

  Vance Havner

  Church, World, Firsts

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• There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralisation, a first assumption of responsibility...

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Responsibility, Condom Use, Males

  "Pope Benedict edges away from total ban on use of condoms" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2010.

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• A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

  Denis Diderot

  Firsts, Steps, Skepticism

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