First Steps Quotes - Page 26

• Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

  Denis Diderot

  Philosophy, Firsts, Steps

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• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  Fanny Burney

  Ambition, Expectations, Mind

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Cynical

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

  Halle Berry

  Knowing, Defining, Firsts

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• If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

  Molly Ivins

  Middle East, Firsts, Steps

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• You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Children, Patriotic

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?

  Erich von Däniken

  Eye, Ideas, Doubt

  Erich von Däniken (1969). “Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past”

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• Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Men, Progress

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.

  Tony Dungy

  Dream, Commitment, Passion

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• The first step is you have to say that you can.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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• The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Mean

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• It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

  Stanley Milgram

  Perception, Puppets, May

  "The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India". Book by V. R. Krishna Iyer, 1979.

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• Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

  Terry Goodkind

  Admitting, Firsts, Steps

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.146, Head of Zeus

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• Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

  Philip James Bailey

  Motivational, Art, Simplicity

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.458

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• We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

  Oswald Chambers

  Waiting, Use, Firsts

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.110, Discovery House

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• Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Ignorance, Knowing, Enlightenment

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• It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

  Christine Feehan

  Should Have, Looks, Done

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Sea Storm”, p.174, Penguin

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• Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.

  Tracie Peterson

  Way, Firsts, Steps

  Tracie Peterson (2010). “Morning's Refrain (Song of Alaska Book #2)”, p.92, Bethany House

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• I luv the book first step to forever by justin bieber

  Justin Bieber

  Book, Forever, Firsts

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• Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

  Ann Voskamp

  Doors, Firsts, Steps

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.45, Zondervan

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• I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Green, Firsts, Steps

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• Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

  Kate Morton

  Running, Doors, Next

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Whoever you are and wherever you find yourself as you seek your way in life, I offer you "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6). Wherever else you think you may be going, I ask you to "come unto Him" as the imperative first step in getting there, in finding your individual happiness and strength and success.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Thinking, Individual Happiness, Way In Life

  "Come unto Me". speeches.byu.edu. March 2, 1997.

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• The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Letting Go, Motivation, Pride

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• What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.

  George Orwell

  Years, Work Out, Secret

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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