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The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Related topics: Positive
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland 
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,
of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -
the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Spirit is always waiting to rush into us,
but we are too full of worldly things.
It is like trying to pour fine wine into a cup filled with mud -
the wine is waiting, but the mud must be removed first.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
- Mark Twain
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
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