First Step Quotes (page 5)

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• change
• justice
• law

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. Gloria Steinem

• giving
• acceptance
• space

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 in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147 Dan Millman

• reality
• road
• progress

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far. Marcel Proust

• children
• moments
• hope

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 will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. Ronald Reagan

• leaving
• mountain
• may

The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination- an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfilment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for survival of those who may look like the keepers of our past but who may really be the guides to... Arundhati Roy

• peace
• intellectual
• urge

This is why therapists go to such lengths to urge their anxious patients away from intellectualization: The first step toward peace is disarmament. Daniel Smith

• wisdom
• question
• lasted

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. Georg C. Lichtenberg

• death
• take
• firsts

Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo) Victor Hugo

• consider
• stepped
• realists

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

• goals
• believe
• accounting

Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. Patty Murray

• responsibility
• design
• seconds

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done. Robert Mugabe

• believe
• true
• stepping

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is. Terry Goodkind

• relationship
• people
• pride

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling. Jeff Foxworthy

• first
• stepping
• steps

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation. Publilius Syrus

• him
• door
• backing

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open. Patrick Ewing