Firsts Quotes

For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

That's your first mistake. Do not trust me.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.

All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Spirit first, technique second.

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

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.

You know Alou's name spelled backwards is Uola? That sounds like a first name, Uola.

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.

God wants us to prosper. Our need, however, is to evaluate things as they should be evaluated - to esteem earthly things lightly - to put first things first.

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

We’ve been proud of the fact that we were known for our music first and it has been what makes us work harder

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

First feelings are always the most natural.

You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.

Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.

You got to be brave and have courage, believe in yourself, because that is the first thing to success is believe in yourself.

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground.

Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.