Top 500 Firsts Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

52. “Action first, mistakes second, lessons third.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

53. “The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.”

— Pete Seeger

54. “Resistance is the first step to change.”

— Louise Hay

55. “Never settle for second when first is available.”

— Lou Holtz

56. “What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.”

— Charlotte Brontë

57. “Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

58. “First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.”

— Thomas A. Edison

59. “Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

60. “To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.”

— Dave Matthews

61. “The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don’t.”

— Zig Ziglar

62. “Only God gets things right the first time.”

— Stephen King

63. “When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself.”

— Langston Hughes

64. “To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.”

— Paulo Coelho

65. “The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.”

— Mark Twain

66. “God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

67. “You forgot my first lesson: don’t hesitate.”

— Richelle Mead

68. “Of course I don’t look busy, I did it right the first time.”

— Scott Adams

69. “The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.”

— Sri Aurobindo

70. “Don’t start your day until you have it finished on paper first.”

— Jim Rohn

71. “Defense is the first act of war.”

— Byron Katie

72. “Brains first and then Hard Work.”

— A. A. Milne

73. “The first person you lead is you.”

— John C. Maxwell

74. “First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.”

— Leon Brown

75. “Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.”

— Sri Aurobindo

76. “If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.”

— Joyce Meyer

77. “I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.”

— Carol Burnett

78. “To be a great leader, first become a great person.”

— Robin S. Sharma

79. “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”

— Albert Einstein

80. “The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.”

— Zig Ziglar

81. “In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”

— Pablo Picasso

82. “The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.”

— Aristotle

83. “If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.”

— B.R. Ambedkar

84. “Wonder is the first of all the passions.”

— René Descartes

85. “First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?”

— Carl Sagan

86. “First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.”

— Maria Montessori

87. “If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.”

— Hippocrates

88. “Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won’t die.”

— Mark Twain

89. “Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.”

— Swami Vivekananda

90. “I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”

— Steve Martin

91. “No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.”

— Oswald Chambers

92. “A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.”

— Stephen Hawking

93. “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”

— Amy Tan

94. “When in sickness, look to the spine first.”

— Hippocrates

95. “First impressions are always unreliable.”

— Franz Kafka

96. “Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won’t be needing them again.”

— Scott Adams

97. “Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.”

— Brian Tracy

98. “Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.”

— Thomas Mann

99. “Nature’s first green is gold.”

— Robert Frost

100. “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.”

— Carl Sagan