Sometimes, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step, you need to be the one to drive the change.
To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful.
First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.
The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.
To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn’t, in reality, do what they did on TV.
Sometimes it seems to me I’ve known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.
I’ve been in ‘Who’s Who’ and I know what’s what, but it’ll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.
Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
First you win the argument, then you win the vote.
The Third World is very much like the First World – just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself.
Humor is when the joke’s on you but hits the other fellow first – before it boomerangs.
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I’d never even thought about killing myself.