Step Quotes

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.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

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.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.

In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

Every failure is a step to success.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.