A Quote by James Dobson

When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.

James Dobson

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Any Direction Down Go Going Pedestal People Put Step Up

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James Dobson
American - Psychologist
Born: April 21, 1936

I don't put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He's just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.

Ryan Bader

Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.

Greg Laurie

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Emma Stone

Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

Terry Pratchett

Being a stepparent is knowing when to step in, when to step back, when to step up, when to step out.

Joe Buck

Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step - you tend to lose your roots - and if you don't be careful, you can fall.

Burning Spear

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

Gaston Bachelard

It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it.

Max Lucado

We have a bunch of American citizens who step up because that's what we do. We'll step up and go across the world to help people out. When it comes to our own backyard, it's always a different conversation.

Ed Reed

Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.

Tullian Tchividjian

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Jeannette Walls

We're going to step on the field knowing that every team we're going against is going to push their game to that whole new level that we probably hadn't seen. ... We've just got to be ready to step up with them

Crystl Bustos

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Kurt Vonnegut

Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect.