All Time Famous Firsts Quotes

“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