Browsing Topic Best Firsts Quotes

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

You have to be odd to be number one.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.

Happiness is the ultimate goal. The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

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

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

Love lasts when the relationship comes first.

Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.

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

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born – waiting to see the light.

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

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.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.

For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps.