Firsts Quotes - Page 3

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I first ran I talked about affirmative-action.

Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

That's your first mistake. Do not trust me.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.

The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.