| "If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them." »Unknown |
| "All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| "Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God." »Marguerite de Valois |
| "Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step." »Deng Xiaoping |
| "There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals...." »Ben Stein |
| "I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)" »Charles De Gaulle |
| "You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities." »Barbara Bush |
| "Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." »Brian Tracy |
| "I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking." »Og Mandino |
| "When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it." »Marie de Sevigne |
| "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." »Alexander Graham Bell |
| "The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it." »Larry Hawkins |
| "When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." »Stanislaw Lec |
| "Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it." »Kitty Kelley |
| "No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train." »Amos Bronson Alcott |
| "Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs." »Tori Amos |
| "To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can." »Sydney Smith |
| "Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it." »Vaclav Havel |
| "Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." »Zora Neale Hurston |
| "Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody." »Stanislaw Lec |
| "It is only the first step that is difficult." »Marie De Vichy-Chaconne |
| "There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "Every failure is a step to success..." »William Whewell |
| "The distance is nothing it's only the first step that is difficult." »Marquise du Deffand |
| "What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better." »Wendell Phillips |
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