Step Quotes - page 10

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace. (Publilius Syrus)
Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. View quote
Terry Goodkind
Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try! View quote
Tom Lehrer
From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews. View quote
David Ben-Gurion
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. View quote
Phil Ochs
There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within. View quote
Bob Dylan
The first step is you have to say that you can. View quote
Will Smith
I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs. View quote
Konstantin Rokossovsky
I set another goal ... a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step. (Michael Jordan)
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and ... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. View quote
Carl Jung
Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. View quote
Douglas Adams
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. View quote
Frances Wright
Sometimes a day is a step mother, sometimes a mother. View quote
Hesiod
The tired ox treads with a firmer step. View quote
Jerome
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take. View quote
Melissa Bean
Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a sign;But to the tireless toiler toward the goal,Shall the great miracles of God be knownAnd life revealed, immortal and divine. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
Action is transitory-a step, a blow- The motion of a muscle-this way or that- 'Tis done; and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed. View quote
William Wordsworth
The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men. View quote
Jacques Maritain
I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well. View quote
John McAfee
Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue. View quote
Maxine Waters