The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

I see how loving my parents are toward each other, toward my family and toward me. And that's just a glimpse of Jesus' love for us.

The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Unlike the twisters he famously chased in the movies, Bill Paxton was the kind of force of nature you ran toward and never away from.

We must transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuels toward renewable sources of energy for the sake of our economy and our planet.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You are just drawn to things, and that's OK.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

If I gravitate toward someone, I bridge the gap between us somehow, and I accidentally maybe start seeing the world through their eyes.

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.

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