Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.
The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
First you get a habit, then it gets you.
Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.
The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.
Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to ‘get’ is to first ‘give’ through some sort of useful service.
If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn’t matter what’s second.
First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.
The first problem, of course, is that we haven’t learned to love ourselves. That’s the first problem. We can only give to another what we have to give. And if we have no love over here, we can’t give it over there.
Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.
The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.
Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you’re waiting for someone to publish the first thing...
When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I’d sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.