Top 500 Firsts Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.”

— Helen Keller

302. “All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”

— Ken Kesey

303. “All new learning looks at first like chaos.”

— Adrienne Rich

304. “There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.”

— Saint Augustine

305. “The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm.”

— Leonard Bernstein

306. “The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.”

— Maria Montessori

307. “See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”

— Douglas Adams

308. “Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.”

— Louise Hay

309. “If at first you don’t succeed, try management.”

— Stephen Hawking

310. “First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.”

— Zig Ziglar

311. “If you don’t first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you’ll only be a highpay slave.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

312. “That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.”

— Pema Chödrön

313. “First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.”

— Joseph Campbell

314. “Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.”

— Napoleon Hill

315. “We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.”

— John F. Kennedy

316. “To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.”

— Zhuangzi

317. “Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.”

— Abraham Lincoln

318. “The first step to becoming is to will it.”

— Mother Teresa

319. “We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.”

— Swami Vivekananda

320. “All history was at first oral.”

— Samuel Johnson

321. “The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.”

— Napoleon Hill

322. “The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man.”

— Khalil Gibran

323. “I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet.”

— Jane Austen

324. “Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.”

— Swami Vivekananda

325. “I don’t kick a man when he’s down, unless I’m the one who put him down in the first place. I don’t put him down unless he deserves it. And I don’t break my word if I give it. So I’ll give you my word.”

— Nora Roberts

326. “The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

327. “The first time you quit, it’s hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don’t even have to think about it.”

— Bear Bryant

328. “The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus...”

— Thomas A. Edison

329. “I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.”

— Usain Bolt

330. “I know death follows me, but I murder him first.”

— Tupac Shakur

331. “First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.”

— Heinrich Heine

332. “The first cuckoo’s melancholy cry.”

— William Wordsworth

333. “I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.”

— Mike Tyson

334. “Unless you’re one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.”

— Barack Obama

335. “The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.”

— Eckhart Tolle

336. “If at first you don’t succeed, avoid skydiving.”

— Socrates

337. “Birth is life’s first lottery ticket.”

— Jeffrey Archer

338. “Whom you would change, you must first love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

339. “When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.”

— Rumi

340. “Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.”

— Winston Churchill

341. “First the colours. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.”

— Markus Zusak

342. “The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.”

— Gloria Steinem

343. “Do you believe in first love – or should I pass by again?”

— Stephen Hawking

344. “Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.”

— Meister Eckhart

345. “People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last.”

— Nido R. Qubein

346. “Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.”

— Maria Montessori

347. “A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.”

— Thomas Fuller

348. “Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly – at first.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

349. “To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.”

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

350. “Voting is the first duty of democracy.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson