First Steps Quotes - Page 8

• We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.

  Joschka Fischer

  Europe, Unions, Firsts

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• If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans.

  Charley Reese

  Country, Party, Organization

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• The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Peace, Sex, Practice

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• The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of renouncing himself - that is, his own senses, his own passions, his own will, his own judgement, and all the movements of nature, making to God a sacrifice of all these things, and of all their acts, which are surely sacrifices very acceptable to the Lord. And we must never grow weary of this; for if anyone having, so to speak, one foot already in Heaven, should abandon this exercise, when the time should come for him to put the other there, he would run much risk of being lost.

  St. Vincent

  Running, Taken, Passion

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• A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

  David Jeremiah

  Life, Heart, Calling

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• Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inner Strength, Faces, Firsts

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• Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Healing, Needs, Firsts

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• The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Reading, Writing, Blogging

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• If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

  Mark Cuban

  Smart, Firsts, Return

  "Mark Cuban On How To Get Rich". www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2011.

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• If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

  Paulo Coelho

  Success, Caring, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 08, 2014

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• Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Doubt, Firsts, Steps

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• You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid.

  Mother Angelica

  Grace, Needs, Boots

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• You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence

  Irene Gut Opdyke

  Smugglers, Resistance, Firsts

  Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong (2010). “In My Hands”, p.92, Random House

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• A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

  Publilius Syrus

  Judgement, Firsts, Steps

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• I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Domestic Violence, Next Steps, Finals

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• Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

  Dan Poynter

  Taken, Challenges, New Horizons

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• I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Makeup, Laughing, Firsts

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• Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Theatre, Firsts

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Moving, Men, Differences

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• Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.

  Johnny Depp

  Mean, Romantic Love, Broken

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• I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

  Alva Myrdal

  Weapons, Firsts, Steps

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.

  Kevin Bales

  Eye, Reality, World

  Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet state of equilibrium-impossible to achieve in an evolving system. Though refraining from harm is an essential first step, lasting peace is created by actively redressing harm done. Peace is a creative process of actively joining I and thou into a co-creative we. It requires authentic communication, empathic listening, and wildly creative solutions.

  Anodea Judith

  Peace, Communication, Creativity

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• To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.

  Zhuangzi

  Exercise, Taoism, Firsts

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• Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Past, Giving, Today

  "Humanity Needs a Touch of Magical Interfaith Dialogue" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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