#then

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ↗

— George Konrad

#believe #courage #dangerous #maybe #number

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided. ↗

— Ali Larter

#broken #got #heart #i #many

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#attachment #break #bring #confidence #draw

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#asian #asian countries #countries #democracy #economy

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#commodity #europe #i #i think #like

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage. ↗

— John Mayer

#honest #just #open #start #then

It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#leadership

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse? ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#first #how #job #king #minister

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#american culture #chinese #culture #egyptian #german

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

#believe #i #i believe #learn #life