Firsts Quotes

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. — Wilma Rudolph
My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to… — Bear Bryant
The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it. — Bear Bryant
A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. — Robert Aris Willmott
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books. — Marguerite Yourcenar
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a… — Henri Frederic Amiel
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential… — George Washington
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical… — William Bennett
I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter… — Monica Baldwin
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character — Warren G. Bennis
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors,… — Henry David Thoreau
My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away. — Rodney Dangerfield
The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit. — Earl Weaver
You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice. — Chuck Noll
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on… — Jimmy Piersall
People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments, and you are… — Rajneesh
When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see… — Rajneesh
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development. — Hugh Miller
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to… — E. O. Wilson
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Not the… — Francis Darwin

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