Quotes on Firsts

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.

If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

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

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!

Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.