First Step Quotes
635 quotes by 502 authors
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake…
— C.S. Lewis
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The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm…
— Joseph Campbell
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the…
— Leon Uris
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
— Marcel Proust
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is…
— Alan Lightman
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As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly.…
— Parker J. Palmer
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To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things…
— Anne Rice
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The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern…
— Dan Millman
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He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.
— Colum McCann
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a…
— Pat Conroy
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be…
— Louisa May Alcott
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A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and…
— Greg Mortenson
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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
— Stephen Covey
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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we…
— Ronald Reagan
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What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
— George Orwell
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Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.
— Terry Goodkind
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We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He…
— Oswald Chambers
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first…
— Richard Dawkins
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