Best Single Step Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A 10,000 mile walk, begins with a single step and continues one step at a time.”

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“The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.”

“Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.”

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Author:Ben Bernanke

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

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Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.”

“Running has taken me on adventures great and small, at home and around the world. It has provided me with hope and perseverance on days when I had none-and even, once every great while, warmed me with that fleeting ray of sunshine known as glory. Running has taught me that I can do anything, just so long as I keep putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes that notion is metaphorical and sometimes not. In this way, I have been inspired to attempt things I would have never dreamed possible. And it all started with a single step.”

Source: To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)

“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.”

“We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.”

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Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“Who can take a single step with his head?”

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Author:Herta Muller

“Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.”

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Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Every journey starts with a single step.”

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Author:Confucius

“To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.”

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Author:Voltaire

“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.”

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Author:Laozi

“If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.”

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Author:Julia Sweeney

“A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.”

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Author:Laozi

“In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.”

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Author:Chuck Jones

“If you take a single step toward positive change, that divine energy will take a hundred steps toward you. New worlds and unbelievable possibilities will open up for you. The synchronicities that will begin appearing in your life will become a source of delight and amazement.”

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Book:Inner Peace for Busy People (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Inner Peace for Busy People (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“When we started out we got a lot of positive press around the single 'Step Into My World', and a lot of Radio play. The single did really well, so we were in the spotlight straight away. I obviously had my history with Ride, but I didn't want to talk about that, so all the interviews centred around how I'd had these auditions and found the band members that way. I think people felt like that was not 'for real' enough or something.”

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Author:Andy Bell

“It is a very strong rule in drama, and in life, that people remain true to their basic natures. They change, and their change is essential for drama, but typically they only change a little, taking a single step towards integrating a forgotten or rejected quality into their natures.”

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Author:Christopher Vogler

“The longest journey begins with a single step.”

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Author:Patanjali

“As I've said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn't just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You've got to keep working at that over time.”

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Author:Theresa May

“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”

Source: How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life

“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.”

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Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”

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Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”

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

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Author:Ann Druyan

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.”

“Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.”

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Book:Marathoning for Mortals: A Regular Person's Guide to the Joy of Running or Walking a Half-Marathon or Marathon

Source: Marathoning for Mortals: A Regular Person's Guide to the Joy of Running or Walking a Half-Marathon or Marathon

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

Forget Steps Busy Single Step

Book:Green Angel

Source: Green Angel

“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”