First Steps Quotes - Page 30

• Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Men, People

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• Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Winter, Thinking, Names

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.10, A&C Black

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• Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

  Caroline Pratt

  Progress, Firsts, Steps

  Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Moving, Mean, Winning

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.270, Allison & Busby

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• She could smell the boy spice beneath the thrift-store aroma of his jacket, and the rubbing and the smell began to work to soften her -- like butter before you add sugar, in the first steps of making something sweet. It was her first experience of how bodies could meld together, how breath could slip naturally into rhythm. It was hypnotic. Heady. And she wanted more.

  Laini Taylor

  Sweet, Boys, Smell

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• The first step to success it's to imagine it

  Pete Hautman

  Firsts, Steps, Imagine

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• What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?

  Michael Gerber

  Goal, Progress, Gone

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• How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

  George Leonard

  Journey, Needs, Firsts

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• The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.

  John Locke

  Children, Mind, Noble

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.51

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  Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Law, Justice, May

  "Building a Life of Value: Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us". Book by Jason Merchey, 2005.

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• First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

  Aberjhani

  Motivational, Taken, Moving Forward

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

  e. e. cummings

  Reality, Firsts, Steps

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• Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

  Dwight Longenecker

  Thinking, Firsts, Steps

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• Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.

  Jacques Derrida

  Opening Up, Risk, Gestures

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• Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

  Frank Herbert

  Knowing, Steps, Firsts

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.44, Penguin

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• When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

  Philippa Gregory

  Want Something, Unhappy, Desire

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 11: "The Thinkers", p. 158, 1970.

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