1. “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
2. “Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place.”— Harvey MacKay
3. “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
4. “Every monster was a man first.”— Edward Albee
5. “Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
6. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.”— Jim Rohn
7. “You forgot my first lesson: don’t hesitate.”— Richelle Mead
8. “Brains first and then Hard Work.”— A. A. Milne
9. “If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.”— Benjamin Franklin
10. “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”— Anne Frank
11. “For me, you say the words ‘concept record,’ and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.”— Chester Bennington
12. “The ancient saying, “There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses,” and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.”— Maria Montessori
13. “We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.”— Oswald J. Smith
14. “I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”— Steve Martin
15. “First thought, best thought.”— Allen Ginsberg
16. “Nature’s first green is gold.”— Robert Frost
17. “The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.”— Fulton J. Sheen
18. “The first time you do a thing is always exciting.”— Agatha Christie
19. “There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.”— George R.R. Martin
20. “Oh darling, don’t be bitter. It’s the first instinct of the weak.”— Sarah Dessen
21. “Be first the master of yourself.”— Baltasar Gracián
22. “No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.”— Oswald Chambers
23. “Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.”— Dave Brubeck
24. “When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.”— Elizabeth Gilbert
25. “If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.”— William Feather
26. “Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”— Muhammad Ali
27. “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.”— Brian Tracy
28. “First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.”— Warren Buffett
29. “I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”— Toni Morrison
30. “This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.”— Swami Vivekananda
31. “At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.”— Rick Warren
32. “First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead.”— Stephen King
33. “You’ll never be a winner of souls unless you’re first a weeper for souls.”— Charles H. Spurgeon
34. “Trust is the first step to love.”— Munshi Premchand
35. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”— Charles Dickens
36. “If the big rocks don’t go in first, they aren’t going to fit in later.”— Stephen R. Covey
37. “Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.”— Patrick Rothfuss
38. “Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.”— Mahatma Gandhi
39. “The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.”— Ronald Reagan
40. “Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again – until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.”— William Booth
41. “To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.”— Karl Marx
42. “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
43. “If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.”— Thomas Merton
44. “The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.”— T. Harv Eker
45. “When people don’t like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.”— Tom Hiddleston
46. “If at first you don’t succeed, give up.”— Homer
47. “No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.”— Douglas MacArthur
48. “To accomplish much you must first lose everything.”— Ernesto Che Guevara
49. “The right to life is the first among human rights.”— Pope Francis
50. “The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.”— René Descartes
51. “You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.”— Dalai Lama XIV
52. “In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.”— Octavia Butler
53. “Defense is the first act of war.”— Byron Katie
54. “Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.”— Napoleon Hill
55. “The first step to greatness is to be honest.”— Samuel Johnson
56. “I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.”— Muhammad Ali
57. “In order to change your life outside, you must first change inside.”— Louise Hay
58. “All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. “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
60. “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson
61. “The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.”— Mary Kay Ash
62. “Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.”— Aristotle
63. “Freedom, the first-born of science.”— Thomas Jefferson
64. “Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”— Stephen R. Covey
65. “One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.”— Calvin Coolidge
66. “To achieve great things, we must first dream.”— Coco Chanel
67. “Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.”— Henry Ward Beecher
68. “The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”— Saint Augustine
69. “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”— Amy Tan
70. “A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.”— Stephen Hawking
71. “Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.”— Frank Herbert
72. “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
73. “My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God’s presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let’s you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.”— Bette Midler
74. “You can’t win unless you first begin. So start now.”— Robin S. Sharma
75. “After the first death, there is no other.”— Dylan Thomas
76. “It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.”— Lucille Ball
77. “When in sickness, look to the spine first.”— Hippocrates
78. “Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We’re in the education business.”— John Wooden
79. “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
80. “Work first, and then rest.”— John Ruskin
81. “We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”— John F. Kennedy
82. “The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.”— Nhat Hanh
83. “Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.”
84. “Don’t invest in what you don’t know. Learn first then invest.”— Robert T. Kiyosaki
85. “The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.”— Mark Twain
86. “A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”— Robin S. Sharma
87. “A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
88. “In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.”— Steve Jobs
89. “First rule, stick them with the pointy end!”— George R.R. Martin
90. “The first person you lead is you.”— John C. Maxwell
91. “If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.”— Niall Horan
92. “We can only grasp the gospel’s sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can’t save yourself.”— Timothy Keller
93. “Don’t start your day until you have it finished on paper first.”— Jim Rohn
94. “One must have first of all a solid foundation.”— Sri Aurobindo
95. “There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
96. “Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.”— Ulrich Beck
97. “The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.”— Peter Abelard
98. “Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.”— Aristotle
99. “You have first to experience what you want to express.”— Vincent van Gogh
100. “Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.”— Sarah Dessen
101. “Ah, yes. I remember my first beer.”— Steve Martin
102. “If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.”— George Carlin
103. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”— John C. Maxwell
104. “There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.”— Thomas Aquinas
105. “We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.”— Beth Moore
106. “Of course I don’t look busy, I did it right the first time.”— Scott Adams
107. “Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.”— John Locke
108. “Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.”— Bill Gates
109. “When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you’ve never dreamed of.”— Joel Osteen
110. “We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.”— Calvin Coolidge
111. “First impressions are always unreliable.”— Franz Kafka
112. “Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.”— Groucho Marx
113. “I think my general disposition on life is finding what’s funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, “What’s funny about it?””— Will Smith
114. “First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.”— John Wooden
115. “It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.”— Miyamoto Musashi
116. “If at first you do succeed, try something harder.”— Ann Landers
117. “If I’d never have picked up the first person, I’d never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.”— Mother Teresa
118. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”— Charles Bukowski
119. “All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.”— Stephen R. Covey
120. “Awareness is always the first step.”— Miguel Ruiz
121. “First be a good animal.”
122. “God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.”— Soren Kierkegaard
123. “Do what’s right, first. Don’t sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.”— Joyce Meyer
124. “If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.”— Giordano Bruno
125. “A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”— William James
126. “Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.”— C. S. Lewis
127. “The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”— Theodore Roosevelt
128. “Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.”— Jim Rohn
129. “Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
130. “Hitler was the first superstar.”— David Bowie