Top 500 Firsts Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Love You Quotes

2. “You can’t win unless you first begin. So start now.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Winning Quotes

3. “It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes

4. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Personality Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

5. “Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”

— Muhammad Ali

6. “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”

— Anne Frank

Also featured in: Choices Quotes

7. “The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.”

— Mary Kay Ash

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes

8. “When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you’ve never dreamed of.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Blessed Quotes

9. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Live Life Quotes

10. “Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.”

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Virtue Quotes

11. “All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Communication Quotes

12. “A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Perspective Quotes

13. “In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.”

— Steve Jobs

14. “To accomplish much you must first lose everything.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

15. “To achieve great things, we must first dream.”

— Coco Chanel

16. “In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.”

— Octavia Butler

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Transformation Quotes

17. “The first step to greatness is to be honest.”

— Samuel Johnson

18. “If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.”

— William Feather

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Quotes About Work

19. “Work first, and then rest.”

— John Ruskin

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Work Ethic Quotes, Duty Quotes, Work Hard Quotes

20. “Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Inspirational Business Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Influence Quotes

21. “Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Life Is Short Quotes

22. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes

23. “God first, family second, career third.”

— Mary Kay Ash

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Values Quotes, Inspirational Career Quotes, Family Quotes

24. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Caring Quotes, Helping Quotes, Quotes About Giving

25. “We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.”

— Steve Jobs

26. “If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Also featured in: Witty Quotes

27. “Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Also featured in: Boundaries Quotes

28. “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Creative Quotes, Art Quotes, Design Quotes

29. “If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Desire Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

30. “If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.”

— George Carlin

31. “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.”

— Brian Tracy

32. “Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Wise Quotes

33. “If the big rocks don’t go in first, they aren’t going to fit in later.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Wisdom Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

34. “All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.”

— Stephen R. Covey

35. “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Smart Quotes, Truth Quotes

36. “You can’t reason someone out of something that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place.”

— Mark Twain

37. “The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.”

— Bill Gates

38. “I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”

— Stephen Hawking

39. “Whether it’s marriage or business, patience is the first rule of success.”

— William Feather

Also featured in: Patience Quotes

40. “Loyalty is the first law of God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Loyalty Quotes

41. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

— Lewis Carroll

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Adventure Quotes

42. “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”

— Sigmund Freud

Also featured in: Justice Quotes, Quotes About Civilization

43. “For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Wellness Quotes

44. “The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Famous Movie Quotes

45. “Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Scripture Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes

46. “If at first you do succeed, quit trying in investing.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Wealth Quotes, Investing Quotes

47. “Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.”

— Michael Scott

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Crazy Quotes

48. “My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.”

— Lil Wayne

Also featured in: Blessed Family Quotes

49. “To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.”

— Stephen Hawking

50. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Wealth Quotes, Opportunity Quotes