You have to walk up each step to get to the top of the staircase.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Don't try to walk before you can crawl

Top of the morning

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

I was on the top step. I had a good feeling.