Steps In The Right Direction Quotes

• It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

  Louis Sachar

  Persistence, Small Steps, Leap

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• Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

  Emma Stone

  Steps, Sometimes, Ends

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• One step in the right direction is better than a hundred years of thinking about it.

  T. Harv Eker

  Thinking, Years, Steps

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• Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

  Paula Deen

  Desire, Small Steps, Happens

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• Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

  Terry Pratchett

  Firsts, Steps, Every Step

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• Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.

  Kara Goucher

  Inspirational, Moving On, Believe

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Jan 20, 2013

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• And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Responsibility, Steps, Turns

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.312, Dial Press

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Real, Nfl

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• While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

  Henry C. Link

  Leadership, Confidence, Motivation

  Henry C. Link (1945). “The Return to Religion”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• Well, I don't like the UK. I haven't ever been a fan of the pound (sterling),
  and even though they are taking some steps in the right direction - more so than the US - in addressing some of their problems, I still think they're doing it much too slowly. So, I think that the pound will continue to lose value relative to some of these other currencies. I ultimately expect the pound to rise against the dollar, but that's not the best way to take advantage of dollar weakness.

  Peter Schiff

  Thinking, Weakness, Fans

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• How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

  Donella Meadows

  Light, Appreciate, Perfect

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• Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to get many people taking steps in the right direction than to have fewer achieving the ideal.

  Peter Singer

  Running, Strong, Long

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• John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.

  Barack Obama

  People, Would Be, Bills

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Think of every step in a workout as a step in the right direction.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Workout, Thinking, Steps

  Valerie Bertinelli (2009). “Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".

  Poul Henningsen

  Fighting, Steps, Conservative

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• When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done

  Tom Reed

  Thinking, Trying, Groups

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• Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

  Ani DiFranco

  Balance, Feminism, Together

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• The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Heaven, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.429

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• The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Wings, Water

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• Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

  Thomas Frank

  Kids, Judging, Cash

  "Lock ‘em Up — Jailing Kids is a Proud American Tradition" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

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• It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.

  Gustavo Kuerten

  Home, Winning, Years

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• Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

  Alveda King

  Mother, Baby, Steps

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• President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Numbers, Healthy

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• Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Skills, Iraq, America

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