No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
There is the joy of one’s own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.
We’ve got to be of service first before we can expect money.
The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you’ve been responsible for sin.
To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.
Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.