Top 500 Firsts Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Winning Quotes

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

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Art Quotes

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

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Self-Improvement 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

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Virtue Quotes

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “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

13. “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: Achievement Quotes

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

— Ernesto Che Guevara

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Octavia Butler

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

— Coco Chanel

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

— William Feather

19. “Work first, and then rest.”

— John Ruskin

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

— Robin S. Sharma

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: Quotes About Stories

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Iyanla Vanzant

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

— Mary Kay Ash

Also featured in: Inspirational Career Quotes

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Design Quotes, Art Quotes

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

— Wayne W. Dyer

30. “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

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

— George Carlin

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

— Brian Tracy

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

— Stephen R. Covey

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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Lewis Carroll

Also featured in: Patience Quotes

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

— Mark Twain

39. “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

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

— William Feather

Also featured in: Patience Quotes

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

— Sigmund Freud

Also featured in: Justice Quotes, Quotes About Civilization

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Loyalty Quotes

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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Investing Quotes

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

— Michael Scott

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

— Stephen Hawking

49. “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

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

— Warren Buffett