When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.
The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.
If you have faith in God, if you believe that God can use you, if you are willing to take a step of faith here and there, then God can do incredible things through you.
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.
Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward.
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.
I really want to thank Annika Sorenstam. She helped me a lot about my game, about the mentals, and she told me go step by step.
I want to continue to take steps forward.
There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.
My guys look for me to step up in that magnitude and I take the challenge every time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you've got to have a guy that will take those shots and deal with the consequences.
Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.
My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.
If you can't smile and have fun, you're in trouble. So if somebody in the stands says hello, I'm going to say hello back. Why shouldn't I? I know what I'm doing in this game. I'm still going to be ready to hit when I step in the box.
Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.
I've always been a step ahead. A lot of people haven't experienced the things I've experienced, and made me a stronger person. The life I've been exposed to has let me know what step to take and how not to go back a step. I take life one day at a time, and I prepare myself for each one of those days.
I feel like I have to step on the court every night and be dominant.
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.
My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.
The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.
There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!
Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re-examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.
In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.
Anybody can be good when things are going good, but a real player steps up when things are going bad.
Sometimes, with two strikes and two outs, I step off the mound. People are yelling, they're yelling really loud. I step off because I want to feel it. You've got all that adrenaline going, you've got that rush. People think I'm thinking about something, but I'm just trying to listen to everyone and feed off it.
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