First Steps Quotes - Page 22

• The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Firsts, Steps

  "Fight Club: A Novel". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

  Alan Rufus

  Business, Steps, Firsts

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• The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Loss, Weakness

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• Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  "Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't".

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• The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Time, Men, Firsts

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “The Masquerader (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.285, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

  Veronica Roth

  Forgiveness, Evil, Loving Someone

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• A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen

  Gayle Forman

  Long, Immigration, Exhilaration

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.34, Penguin

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• The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Song, Book

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• Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

  Elif Safak

  Flow, Firsts, Steps

  "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, March, 2009.

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• Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

  Ryan North

  Adventure, Firsts, Steps

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• The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

  Denis Diderot

  Religion, Gone, Firsts

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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• No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Ideas, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1111, Manonmani Publishers

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• Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Being Single, Bad Relationship, Thinking

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• What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

  Denis Diderot

  Philosophy, Firsts, Steps

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• Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.

  Jimmy Carter

  Future, Mean, Sacrifice

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Firsts, Steps

  Hugh Prather (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.7, Conari Press

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• Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

  Charles Simmons

  Love, Honesty, Integrity

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• A runner is real when she takes the first step.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Real, Firsts

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• We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have the potential to support teachers in achieving NEA s purpose of preparing students to thrive in a democratic society and a diverse, changing world as knowledgeable, creative and engaged citizens and lifelong learners.

  Lily Eskelsen Garcia

  Teacher, Educational, Believe

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• The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

  Roy H. Williams

  Funny, Loyalty, Educational

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• If you are angry you will share anger, if you are greedy you will share greed, if you are full of lust you will share your lust. We can share only that which we have, we cannot share that which we don't have. This has to be the fundamental thing to be remembered; hence the first step is meditation and the second step is compassion.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Compassion, Meditation

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• A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish them ... And for this reason I support replacing the H-2A program and implementing new policies that will bring our illegal agricultural workers out of the shadows, as a first step in the process of overhauling our nation's immigration system.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Law, Support, Shadow

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• The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

  Robyn Davidson

  Life, Motivational, Success

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

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