Firsts Quotes - Page 30

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

First thought, best thought.

I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I'm usually one of the first out there on the dance floor. Although I haven't had any formal dance training and something tells me I'm really going to notice the difference.

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.

Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the words.

God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.