Quotes on Steps

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!

Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

Every journey begins with a single step.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.

In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?