12 Steps Quotes

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

This is what happens when you take a step: you are moving closer to what you want.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.

Both must make tangible, immediate steps toward this vision.

Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.

The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]

Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.

The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

The supporters...It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

If anyone is found guilty, I will step on them.

There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.

Marriage should not be viewed as a therapeutic step to solve problems such as homosexual inclinations or practices.

Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’

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.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

My parents have been with me every step of the way.

Every step I take, I am alive. I am Life.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

If I didn't find out, or learn, that I was an alcoholic and I didn't take the 12 Steps of Recovery, I wouldn't be the person I am today. So, I would do it again in a heartbeat.

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

You can never step in the same river twice.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.

There is no retracing our steps.

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.

You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

I consider every step towards doing what you love an achievement.

That first apartment was a big step. It has a lot to do with being independent.

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!

I run behind her, letting her stay a few steps ahead of me so if she happens to fall I’ll be there to laugh at her first and then help her up afterwards.

As we step out of the way new things are born.