Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step."
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John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
Jordan Burroughs
Wrestler
"To get better you have to step out of your comfort zone. You can't do the same things you've always done & improve."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down."
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"The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility."
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"Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are."
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
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"I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps."
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"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life."
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"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
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"Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy."
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"I'm always ready to step up and take that shot."
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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
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"There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness..."
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"The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land."
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"Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day."
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"We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second."
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"The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist."
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"Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual."
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"I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today."
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"After losing LaRoche, I have to step up a little bit. I have to do what I need to do."
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"[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother.""
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"People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward"
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"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."
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