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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
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