“Firsts” typically refers to initial occurrences or instances of something. It could be the first time something happens, the first time someone achieves something, or the first occurrence of an event or phenomenon. For example, a “first” could be the first human landing on the moon, the first time a person achieves a particular milestone, or the first instance of a new technological innovation. “Firsts” often hold significance because they mark the beginning of something or represent a breakthrough in a particular field or area.
Firsts Quotes
1. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
— Charles Bukowski
2. “You can’t win unless you first begin. So start now.”
— Robin S. Sharma
3. “It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.”
— Miyamoto Musashi
4. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.”
— Jim Rohn
5. “Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”
— Muhammad Ali
6. “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”
— Anne Frank
7. “The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.”
— Mary Kay Ash
8. “When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you’ve never dreamed of.”
— Joel Osteen
9. “Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.”
— Aristotle
10. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
— John C. Maxwell
11. “All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.”
— Steve Jobs
13. “A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
— Robin S. Sharma
14. “To accomplish much you must first lose everything.”
— Ernesto Che Guevara
15. “The first step to greatness is to be honest.”
— Samuel Johnson
16. “In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.”
— Octavia Butler
17. “To achieve great things, we must first dream.”
— Coco Chanel
18. “If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.”
— William Feather
19. “Work first, and then rest.”
— John Ruskin
20. “Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.”
— Robin S. Sharma
21. “Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!”
— Helen Keller
22. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
— Terry Pratchett
23. “We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.”
— Steve Jobs
24. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
— Iyanla Vanzant
25. “God first, family second, career third.”
— Mary Kay Ash
26. “If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
27. “Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
28. “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
— Pablo Picasso
29. “If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.”
— Wayne W. Dyer
30. “Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.”
— C. S. Lewis
31. “If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.”
— George Carlin
32. “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.”
— Brian Tracy
33. “If the big rocks don’t go in first, they aren’t going to fit in later.”
— Stephen R. Covey
34. “All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.”
— Stephen R. Covey
35. “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
36. “The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.”
— Bill Gates
37. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
— Lewis Carroll
38. “You can’t reason someone out of something that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place.”
— Mark Twain
39. “I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”
— Stephen Hawking
40. “Whether it’s marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.”
— William Feather
41. “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”
— Sigmund Freud
42. “Loyalty is the first law of God.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
43. “For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.”
— Deepak Chopra
44. “The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
45. “Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.”
— Charles H. Spurgeon
46. “If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.”
— Warren Buffett
47. “Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.”
— Michael Scott
48. “To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.”
— Stephen Hawking
49. “My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.”
— Lil Wayne
50. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.”
— Warren Buffett
51. “Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.”
— Brian Tracy
52. “Action first, mistakes second, lessons third.”
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
53. “The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.”
— Pete Seeger
54. “Resistance is the first step to change.”
— Louise Hay
55. “The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don’t.”
— Zig Ziglar
56. “When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself.”
— Langston Hughes
57. “Only God gets things right the first time.”
— Stephen King
58. “What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.”
— Charlotte Brontë
59. “Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
60. “First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.”
— Thomas A. Edison
61. “Never settle for second when first is available.”
— Lou Holtz
62. “Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.”
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
63. “To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.”
— Dave Matthews
64. “The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.”
— Mark Twain
65. “To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.”
— Paulo Coelho
66. “The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.”
— Sri Aurobindo
67. “God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
68. “Of course I don’t look busy, I did it right the first time.”
— Scott Adams
69. “Defense is the first act of war.”
— Byron Katie
70. “You forgot my first lesson: don’t hesitate.”
— Richelle Mead
71. “Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.”
— Sri Aurobindo
72. “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”
— Albert Einstein
73. “If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.”
— Joyce Meyer
74. “Brains first and then Hard Work.”
— A. A. Milne
75. “The first person you lead is you.”
— John C. Maxwell
76. “First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.”
— Leon Brown
77. “To be a great leader, first become a great person.”
— Robin S. Sharma
78. “The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.”
— Aristotle
79. “The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.”
— Zig Ziglar
80. “Don’t start your day until you have it finished on paper first.”
— Jim Rohn
81. “If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.”
— B.R. Ambedkar
82. “Wonder is the first of all the passions.”
— René Descartes
83. “I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.”
— Carol Burnett
84. “If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.”
— Hippocrates
85. “In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
— Pablo Picasso
86. “Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.”
— Swami Vivekananda
87. “First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?”
— Carl Sagan
88. “First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.”
— Maria Montessori
89. “Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won’t die.”
— Mark Twain
90. “I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”
— Steve Martin
91. “No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.”
— Oswald Chambers
92. “When in sickness, look to the spine first.”
— Hippocrates
93. “A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.”
— Stephen Hawking
94. “Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won’t be needing them again.”
— Scott Adams
95. “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
— Amy Tan
96. “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.”
— Carl Sagan
97. “Nature’s first green is gold.”
— Robert Frost
98. “First impressions are always unreliable.”
— Franz Kafka
99. “Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.”
— Johnny Depp
100. “To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.”
— Karl Marx
