Firsts Quotes

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The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first. — Mark Twain
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into… — Anderson Cooper
The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19. — Paul Newman
If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a… — Audrey Hepburn
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties… — Charles William Eliot
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. — Thomas Carlyle
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do. — Pablo Casals
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of… — Wilfred Trotter
Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown. — Napoleon Hill
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs… — Charles Simmons
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid… — Margot Asquith
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. — Marshall McLuhan
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction. — Hugh Prather
Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It… — R. T. Kendall
When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must… — Sheena Iyengar
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. — Louis Dudek
Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step… — Jimmy Carter

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