Staircases Quotes

• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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• We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Small Steps, Height

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• The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

  Samuel Johnson

  World

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• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Beauty, Heaven

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• Success is a staircase, not a doorway.

  Dottie Walters

  Fitness, Baby, Weight Loss

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• Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Numbers, Progress

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• Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

  Octavio Paz

  Moving, Reality, History

  Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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• It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Steps, Mark, Kicks

  Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Elevation, Corridors

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

  Robert Breault

  Motivation, Inspiration, Steps

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• Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

  Jane Fonda

  Mean, Law, Decay

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• It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Climbing, Looks, Steps

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• There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Freedom, Loss, Long

  The New York Times, September 26, 1982.

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• I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

  Robert Breault

  Dark, People, House

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• Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

  Jason Ellis

  Book, Unknown Worlds, World

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• The way up is a staircase.
  The way down is a cliff.

  Tablo

  Way, Cliffs

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• Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

  Kris Carr

  Lying, Adversity, Worry

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Jan 13, 2014

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• Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Sorry, Stairs, Convenience

  "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". 2003.

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• I just - I kind of see it that way. I find the higher angles down. I do - look, you can go back to the staircase shots in "Third Man" or the staircase in "La Dolce Vita." So I just find that visual construction in a frame.

  Martin Scorsese

  Men, Looks, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Break, Stairs, Convenience

  "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". December 9, 2003.

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• My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

  Jeanne Moreau

  Hiking, Climbing, Steps

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• From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.

  Milan Kundera

  Moving, Good Luck, Cheerful

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• 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

  Max Brooks

  Moving, Cutting, Hair

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