Firsts Quotes - Page 43

Some people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.

Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.