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When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

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To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid

The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill

Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain

When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb

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

When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner

If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)

Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi

Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous

One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb

Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

The awareness that health is dependent
upon habits that we control
makes us the first generation in history
that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
- Sheri Rosenthal

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin

Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

"Think simple" as my old master used to say -
meaning reduce the whole of its parts
into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot

Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies

Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead

For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead

Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

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

There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

You have a row of dominoes set up;
you knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the last one
is that it will go over very quickly.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world
must first come to pass in the heart of America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields

First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie