Steps Quotes
Sad Quotes about Steps

A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let today be a day to trust your own inner guidance,
a day to have faith that your steps are carrying you
in the direction you desire,
a day to keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We climb the steps to nowhere - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim

However carefully we plan our future,
we are always climbing the steps to nowhere.
While it is important to our happiness
that we have an intent for our lives,
it is equally crucial to accept in advance
that we truly have no idea how our lives will turn out -
and that is good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached,
don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
- Confucius

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths,
diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh,
and run up the steps of omnibuses.
- Virginia Woolf

The vision must be followed by the venture.
It is not enough to stare up the steps -
we must step up the stairs.
- Vance Havner

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall,
I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
- Trey Anastasio

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
- Nathalie Sarraute

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now.
You can break that big plan into small steps and take
the first step right away.
- Indira Gandhi

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire
system and tries to build a more collaborative,
more innovative system that will work over the long term.
- Robert Reich

I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta,
Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
- Hakeem Olajuwon

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed,
an architectonic one when it is built,
and a textile one when it is woven.
- Walter Benjamin

Order and simplification are the first steps toward
the mastery of a subject.
- Thomas Mann

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we
cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend
our homeland from the present terrorist threat.
- Mike Pence

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
- Lord Byron

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.
- Caprice Bourret

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
- Paul J. Meyer

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day,
the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again,
to retrace one's steps to the upper air -
there's the rub,
the task.
- Virgil

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat,
still shall it be said we died like brave men,
and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
- Zebulon Pike

Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace
and stability of the world,
and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.
- Moshe Katsav

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss,
wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.
- Todd Barry

And I don't have any specific steps to take because
I don't start the same way every time.
But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
- Bruce Nauman

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
- Letitia Landon

And one of our points of continuing conversation with
our trading partners is the urgency of their taking
steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.
- John W. Snow

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual,
and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline,
we go down without taking notice on't.
- Mary Astell

No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
- Heraclitus

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children,
so make the beat keep time with short steps.
- Hans Christian Andersen

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France,
did take a few steps forward.
- Pierre Schaeffer

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps,
the things your feet can do.
- Ninette de Valois

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger;
give,
if thou art asked for little; by these three steps
thou wilt go near the gods.
- Confucius

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by
which the most insignificant success is achieved.
- Anne Sullivan

Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day
as we head into the future with steady steps.
- Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place.
The network was already committed to doing something with him,
so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
- Larry David

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must
travel in the steps they trod.
- Aristophanes

I have about 50 guitars around the house.
I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.
- Bill Mumy

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize
that not all of these steps were popular.
- Tom McCall

Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps.
In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.
- Shannon Miller

It is what you do from now on that will either move
our civilization forward a few tiny steps,
or else...
begin to march us steadily backward.
- Patrick Stewart

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation,
explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
- Bruce Barton

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible
respectability that dogs your steps.
- David Herbert Lawrence

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis
to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.
- David Baker

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes
God made in establishing tonal relationships.
- Ansel Adams

Writing can sometimes be exploitative.
I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect
the privacy of the subject.
If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
- John Barton

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social
Security so that its promise of a secure retirement
is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.
- Herb Kohl

Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think
about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so,
the better their health will be in the long run.
- Lois Capps

A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning,
like going down the steps and over the ramp,
I of course didn't do any of that stuff.
I wish I could have but I didn't.
- Alex D. Linz

I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.
- William Peter Blatty

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
- Amos Bronson Alcott

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.
- Ernest Bramah

I believe democracy flourishes when the government
can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when
the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
- Katherine Graham

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough,
but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above,
there's the rub.
- Virgil

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps,
ahead of terrorism.
- Richard J. Codey

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
- Saul Bellow

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown,
in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
- Jackson Browne

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums
and gives disorder an implied order.
That is already two steps from reality.
- Thomas Griffith

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton,
and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works,
we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
- Joseph Priestley

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution.
But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records
to understand the significance of the earlier records!
- Evan Parker

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

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping
out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns
that create and store memory.
- J. Michael Straczynski

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to
have a machine that does a million steps per second,
a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
- K. Eric Drexler

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.
- Keith Miller

For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it
ignores the steps the U.S.
has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard
for our prior trade pacts.
- Randy Neugebauer

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively
to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential
steps that will make our communities and lives safer.
- Paul Gillmor

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send
whatever assistance is requested of us,
and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.
- Jennifer Granholm