„We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.“

„Only when we step back can we see that we have been reassembling something that can stand in the wind.“

—  Thomas Cahill American scholar and writer 1940

Introduction
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

„The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.“

—  Mikhail Baryshnikov Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Letonia, Soviet Union 1948

„We must decide what we value and decide what is worth fighting for and then–the most important part–we must fight for it.“

—  Garry Kasparov former chess world champion 1963

Zdroj: 2010s, Winter is Coming (2015), p. 62

„We asked the people to decide, they decided... that means we can't come up with something else in Parliament“

—  Penny Mordaunt British politician (born 1973) 1973

Brexit: Theresa May says David Cameron 'not advising her' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46592394 BBC News (17 December 2018)
2018

„If there must be decision by a close majority, then let the people step in and let it be their majority that decides.“

—  Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

1910s, California's Policies Proclaimed (Feb. 21, 1911)

„Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.“

—  Nora Roberts American romance writer 1950

„You have heard the queen's advice. My gift is below. Would you wait to see it until you have decided what you will do with hers?“

—  Megan Whalen Turner, kniha A Conspiracy of Kings

Eugenides to Sophos
A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)

„The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.“

—  Ben Stein actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humorist 1944

As quoted in Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996) by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, p. 85

„Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood
Others may decieve you
You decide what's good
You decide alone
But no one is alone“

—  Stephen Sondheim American composer and lyricist 1930

Zdroj: Into the Woods

„Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way.“

—  Rickard Falkvinge former head of the Swedish Pirate Party 1972

Wikinews Interview http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Avast_ye_scurvy_file_sharers%21%22:_Interview_with_Swedish_Pirate_Party_leader_Rickard_Falkvinge (June 20, 2006)

„People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.“

—  Dorothy Day Social activist 1897 - 1980

„It has been well said … that there are steps on the way to the summit of Dietetic Reform, and, if only one step be taken, yet that single step will be not without importance and without influence in the world. The step, which leaves for ever behind it the barbarism of slaughtering our fellow-beings, the Mammals and Birds, is, it is superfluous to add, the most important and most influential of all.“

—  Howard Williams (humanitarian) English humanitarian 1837 - 1931

The Ethics of Diet, Preface http://www.ivu.org/history/williams/preface.html from the 1st edition, 1883.

„We see the wisest, most intelligent people take steps in life, that we must shake our head over.“

—  Adolph Freiherr Knigge, kniha Über den Umgang mit Menschen

Wir sehen die klügsten, verständigsten Menschen im Leben Schritte tun, über die wir den Kopf schütteln müssen.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)

„History shows that degeneracy can be turned around because it has been done in the past. But the real question today is: Will we turn it around-or is what we are doing likely to make matters worse?“

—  Thomas Sowell American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author 1930

Barbarians inside the Gates?
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

„Mankind is becoming more ethical, but it is not happening because man has decided to become better than he was 100 years ago. It’s because we know we live in a glass house where everybody can see.“

—  Brunello Cucinelli Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist 1953

„It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.“

—  Christine Feehan American writer

Zdroj: Oceans of Fire

„From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.“

—  Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

„Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.“

—  Adriana Trigiani American film director 1970

Zdroj: The Shoemaker's Wife

„If Christ's followers aren't growing, it is because they are not making a habit of evaluating their lives. They don't step back and ask, "What's working and what's not working?"“

—  Bill Hybels American writer 1951

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)