Firsts Quotes
20399 quotes by 9251 authors
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As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have…
— Rajneesh
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During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture,…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have…
— Rajneesh
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The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.
— Laozi
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -…
— Thomas A. Edison
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If I were a lame only just for a week. I'd look at myself in the mirror and shoot the first thing I see.
— Wiz Khalifa
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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
— Bliss Carman
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The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
— John Updike
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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
— Blaise Pascal
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
— Philip James Bailey
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It is our first duty to serve society.
— Samuel Johnson
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For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's…
— Robert Burns
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Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last…
— Joseph Addison
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If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
— David Frum
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Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God…
— John of the Cross
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Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with…
— Saint Augustine
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Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to…
— Philip Neri
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First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin…
— Dave Barry
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Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend,…
— George H. W. Bush
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