First Steps Quotes - Page 24

• THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.

  Neville Goddard

  Believe, Self, Desire

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Neville Goddard Collection”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

  J. J. Abrams

  Recovery, Thinking, Admitting

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• Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.

  Darren McFadden

  Athletic, Training, Republic

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• Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth

  Ala Bashir

  Kissing, Drawing, Challenges

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• The truth is, you are your own “special someone,” and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

  Deborah King

  Loving Yourself, Finding Love, Special

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• Just believing, just having a molecule of faith--that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Believe, Simple

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• Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.

  Seth Godin

  Moving, Lasts, Firsts

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• Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Art, Creativity, Suffering

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• If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.

  Keith Millard

  Football, Mistake, Firsts

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• Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

  Jim Talent

  Firsts, Steps, Needed

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• The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Important, Firsts, Steps

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• It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Writing, Stuff, Firsts

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• The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Commitment, Firsts, Steps

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• The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

  Zig Ziglar

  Doe, Firsts, Steps

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• The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Faith, Moving, Journey

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.17, Penguin

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• Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

  Zedd

  Being Yourself, Believe, People

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• The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Firsts, Steps

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.95, Penguin

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• To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Mind, Awful, Scripture

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “Sovereignty of God”, p.225, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The first step to greatness is to be honest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness, Firsts, Steps

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons”, p.311

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• It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Firsts, Steps

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2014

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• Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

  Bell Hooks

  Communication, Choices, Next Steps

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• The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

  Matt Drudge

  Firsts, Steps, Snooping

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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• The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

  Tryon Edwards

  Religious, Errors, Grace

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 517), 1891.

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• We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Positive Thinking, Firsts

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• The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Struggle, Book

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 2 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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