First Make Quotes

51 quotes by 49 authors

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly,… — Charles A. Beard
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. — Louis D. Brandeis
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. — Euripides
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability. — Sun Tzu
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth… — B. C. Forbes
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to… — Stephen Leacock
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions. — Thomas Troward
Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people. — Martin Haberman
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. — Charles A. Beard
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes… — Thomas More
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we… — Jonathan Goforth
If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he… — Robert Ruark
Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves. — Eleanor Roosevelt
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First,… — L. Tom Perry
I taught what was clear in Acts 11:26: SAVED = CHRISTIAN = DISCIPLE, simply meaning that you cannot be saved and you cannot be a… — Kip McKean
The Sanskrit word namaste means 'The spirit in me honors the spirit in you.' Whenever you first make eye contact with another person, say 'Namaste'… — Deepak Chopra
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. — Abraham Lincoln
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up… — John Boyd Orr
... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which… — Idries Shah

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