12 Steps Quotes

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

I have this bodyguard so if I get tired of signing Autographs I ask him to step in. It's hard because people get angry at you, but I've got a life to live too.

Think of every step in a workout as a step in the right direction.

My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.

It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.

It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.

One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.

What can I do today to take a step forward?

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

I wholeheartedly encourage any steps in the right direction, in whatever time frame works for the person on the path.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

I'm not ill-informed about movies. I like movies that take it to that next step.

I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don’t.

Beau’s arms slipped around my waist. I knew I should step away but I couldn’t make myself. This was home. Being in his arms like this was where I found peace.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies

Let's show people how desirable it is to step it up and climb towards heaven.

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.

Even afterwards when you go through a scene and then step off, sometimes you need a minute to just decompress.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.

Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps to be further involved in a process when most actors arent.

Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America.

Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation.

I never leave anything behind. It's like a history, a chain, a line of life, you just have to move and make new steps, and keep it evolving - but my soul is my soul.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action.