Firsts Quotes - Page 78

The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

When you hug someone, never be the first to let go.

I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.

I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

I love to write. It's my first love.

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.