Rooftop Steps

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

Defendit numerus: There is safety in numbers. - Unknown

Change starts when someone sees the next step. - William Drayton

Germany is a fortress, but it is a fortress without a roof. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. - Cecil

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao-tzu

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. - Marianne Williamson

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. - Oscar Wilde

The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur. - M Shadows

The harpsichord sounds like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated roof. - Thomas Beecham

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The 12-step chocolate program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate! - Terry Moore

You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. - Indira Gandhi

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. - Thomas Edison

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. - Ben Stein

You can never step into the same river twice for new waters are always flowing on to you. - Heraclitus

To demand more of yourself than you do of others is the first step on any ladder of success. - Unknown

A habit cannot be tossed out the window. It must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. - Tyler Winklevoss

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. - Joe Girard

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof! - Archie Bunker

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. - Frederick Crane

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George

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

You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way. - Star Jones

When ordinary people decide to step out and be part of something big, that's when they become extraordinary. - Brett Harris

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick. - Elizabeth Holmes

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way. - Wayne Dyer

As there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, so also there is but one from the ridiculous to the sublime. - Samuel Butler

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood

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. - John Calvin

Have a bias towards 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