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Nothing happens unless first we dream.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Genuine love should first be directed at oneself – if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others.

Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Knowledge has three degrees — opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

When destruction descends upon man, his reason is the first to die.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.

The first man gets the oyster; the second man gets the shell.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Blood, sweat and respect. The first two you give, the last one you earn.