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.
In order to change your life outside, you must first change inside.
If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.
Resistance is the first step to change.
It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.
It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody’s keeping.
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:.
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one’s conduct and a little receptiveness.