Firsts Quotes - Page 2

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

Silence is God's first language.

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

The interests of the state must come first.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.