The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-.
Prayer is first and foremost an act of love.
The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.
Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.
First you put in, then you get out.
If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.
The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.
You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all.
Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody’s different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.
The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.
The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.
Defense is the first act of war.
The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic – to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.
You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.