Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!
There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.
Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.
Reasons come first. Answers come second.
The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.
In order to find, you must first search.
Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you’ll never manage to button up.
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
The first person you lead is you.
Set the tone for your day by treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to smile. Express your appreciation for them. Expect the best out of them. If you act first, you will set yourself up for success.
The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.
To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.
Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.
Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.
The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.