Quotes on Firsts

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other words, something had to be in it for him. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness. Taking up one's cross and following the Savior means overcoming selfishness; it is a commitment to serve others. Selfishness is one of the baser human traits, which must be subdued and overcome. We torture our souls when we focus on getting rather than giving.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.