We’ve collected the best First Step Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Albert Schweitzer, Mark Manson, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Ben Stein, Denzel Curry. Use them as an inspiration.
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The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
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I first read Sigmund Freud’s ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle‘ as a young girl, and it helped me to understand that there are thousands of possible ways to interpret our experience, that everything has a meaning, and that interpretation is the key to reality. This was the first step to becoming a writer.
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Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it’s the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You’ve got to have faith in something. Believe me.
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A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
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Disclosure of the full monthly costs that consumers pay is the first step to ensuring that cable companies stop taking advantage of consumers.
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If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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The first step in empowerment is taking control of your health, respecting yourself and understanding and celebrating the value you bring to your family and society.
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The first step in community organization is community disorganization.
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The EarthEcho World Water Monitoring Challenge is an opportunity for anyone, anywhere to make the first step in taking action for clean water and healthy waterways worldwide.
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The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there’s programming going on. It’s as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.
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I understand that people have aspirations, and everyone wants to play the lead role. But, I do believe that one must climb the ladder from the first step.
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I’m a big believer in evolution, growth, and in being the best you that you can be, and I feel like the first step to doing that is getting mentally healthy.
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want, so they don’t even let themselves want it.
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The First Step Act, the WEEE Act, and President Trump‘s infrastructure and immigration compromise plans all serve as examples of Trump administration outreach to the Democrats.
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Awareness is the first step in healing.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like ‘Adam.’ Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
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The first step in community organization is community disorganization.
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The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active – in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined ‘free market‘ is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
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The first step in good reporting is good snooping.
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I think the first step is definitely Top 5. From there, you can sort of see the end, and that’s the top. In order to do that, you need to win Slams and big tournaments. That’s just proven. There is no other way.
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Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.
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I don’t believe that we should never not talk to people we don’t agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it’s the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.
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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.
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The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.
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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.
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Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight – the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.
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Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
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If you’re looking for a behind-the-scenes rock-n-roll biography, pick up Nikki Sixx’s ‘The Heroin Diaries‘. If you want the world’s most narcissistic high school yearbook, however, ‘First Step 2 Forever‘ is your new bicycle.
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It is just the start of your professional career and you have to handle it properly and realise that it is not always like that. There will be ups and downs. It is important that you keep humble, keep working hard and see it as the first step on a long journey.
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Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
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An abnormality on a mammogram can turn a woman‘s life upside down, even if no cancer is ultimately found. At the very least, she will have to undergo more tests, usually with a biopsy as a first step. The procedure takes its toll in time and money and even more so in the stress it introduces into a woman’s life.
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My ultimate goal was always that I want to be known as one of the greatest of all time. The first step was obviously to be UFC champion.
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The first step in good reporting is good snooping.
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I already accepted that I can’t jump no more. I’m not as fast as I used to be. I accepted that already. That’s where you become more smart, make that first step or two before that quick player can get there. I gotta make this jump shot, so I’ll give a pump fake because I know that he can jump higher than me.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.
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I’m a big believer in evolution, growth, and in being the best you that you can be, and I feel like the first step to doing that is getting mentally healthy.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.
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The first step to optimising testosterone is eating right. That means cutting out the processed junk food and focusing on high quality proteins, carbs, fats, and an abundance of fruits and vegetables. Don’t fall into the ‘low fat’ eating trap, as this will seriously inhibit your testosterone production.
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Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
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Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
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In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it’s the only step.
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The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.
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The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals.
