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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

You have to be odd to be number one.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Love lasts when the relationship comes first.

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

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

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

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

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

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

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

I really like Barack Obama. I think that he’s working very hard. He’s trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. The previous administration was a total disaster, a total catastrophe. He was handed a pretty bad deck of cards. And I’m not saying I agree with everything he’s doing. He’s a champion. I mean, he won against all odds. When he first announced, people were giving him virtually no chance. And he’s just done something that’s amazing.

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

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

Trust is the first step to love.