Firsts Quotes

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

The first principle of all action is leisure.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the joke is, it's time to move on.

First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

If at first you don't succeed, C4

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

I don't remember the first stunt I ever did.

The subject comes first, the medium second.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

The Holy Spirit is profoundly committed to restoring the first commandment to first place in our lives.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.

Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place

The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align