Firsts Quotes - Page 5

We’ve been proud of the fact that we were known for our music first and it has been what makes us work harder

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

You got to be brave and have courage, believe in yourself, because that is the first thing to success is believe in yourself.

First feelings are always the most natural.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.

Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground.

The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you.

If you wish to control others you must first control yourself

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

To achieve great things, we must first dream.