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Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
I offer gentle understanding to myself.
I position myself in love, not fear.
I look behind me with forgiveness.
I look forward with festive anticipation.
I embrace this holy moment and assert,
"Now. This moment is the moment to love,
the moment to serve, the moment to seize
the legacy instead of the small.
Now. Now I will live large, love boldly,
reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
First Quotes and Sayings
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
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
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
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
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
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
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
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
