Top 500 Firsts Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.”

— Johnny Depp

102. “We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.”

— Beth Moore

103. “The first time you do a thing is always exciting.”

— Agatha Christie

104. “To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.”

— Karl Marx

105. “You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.”

— Robert Greene

106. “To find yourself, you must first lose yourself.”

— Jared Leto

107. “A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.”

— Bill Gates

108. “I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”

— Toni Morrison

109. “If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.”

— Winston Churchill

110. “If at first you don’t succeed, give up.”

— Homer

111. “The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.”

— Jim Rohn

112. “The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

113. “Reasons come first. Answers come second.”

— Jim Rohn

114. “If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn’t matter what’s second.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

115. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself.”

— Audrey Hepburn

116. “Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.”

— Aristotle

117. “Be first the master of yourself.”

— Baltasar Gracián

118. “In order to change your life outside, you must first change inside.”

— Louise Hay

119. “You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

120. “My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.”

— George Carlin

121. “The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You’re not.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

122. “First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.”

— Bertolt Brecht

123. “In order to have friends, you must first be one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

124. “First rule, stick them with the pointy end!”

— George R.R. Martin

125. “It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.”

— Lucille Ball

126. “First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.”

— Warren Buffett

127. “Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.”

— Sarah Dessen

128. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”

— Charles Dickens

129. “First master the fundamentals.”

— Larry Bird

130. “Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

131. “The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.”

— Thomas A. Edison

132. “Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don’t get up for a third.”

— Brandon Sanderson

133. “Everywhere’s been where it is ever since it was first put there. It’s called geography.”

— Terry Pratchett

134. “There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.”

— Thomas A. Edison

135. “Discipline enables you to think first and act second.”

— Joyce Meyer

136. “How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.”

— Steve Martin

137. “Do first things first, and second things not at all.”

— Peter F. Drucker

138. “First be the best and then be first.”

— John Wooden

139. “The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.”

— George Bernard Shaw

140. “We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”

— John F. Kennedy

141. “Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.”

— Swami Vivekananda

142. “In war, truth is often the first casualty.”

— Winston Churchill

143. “Every monster was a man first.”

— Edward Albee

144. “The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.”

— Sri Aurobindo

145. “Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

146. “A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.”

— John Wayne

147. “First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”

— Leonard Cohen

148. “Everyone who has ever built anywhere a “new heaven” first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

149. “The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

150. “I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.”

— Henry David Thoreau