12 Steps Quotes

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.

Find the journey's end in every step.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.

Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current support for such a policy.

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.

I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.

Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!

I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

I always take things step by step and match by match.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

A resolution to exercise or eat more nutritious foods is a step taking you back to the well-being from which you originated.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

That has been the same [my opinion on deportation], correct. But, again, you have to start with baby steps.

Big visions are realized through small steps.

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

Take one step backward into the unknown.

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.

Make your world extraordinary! Step out into this world with confidence and treasure yourself.

I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?