Top 100 Be First Quotes
#1. I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar
#2. There's a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#3. What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.
Publilius Syrus
#5. Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.
J. C. Watts
#6. You can't kill us all, human.'
He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#7. When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
Jim McKay
#8. On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund Hillary
#9. Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents ddidn't want them to be first & best.
Megha Khare
#10. Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
Pearl Bailey
#11. To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.
Ray Kroc
#12. I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
Sophie Swetchine
#13. The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
Lydia Sigourney
#14. You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.
Loretta Lynn
#15. (Everywhere I go as a writer - especially if I'm in drag as a "memoirist" - such fears seem to be first and foremost on people's minds. People seem hungry, above all else, for permission, and a guarantee against bad consequences. The first, I try to give; the second is beyond my power.)
Maggie Nelson
#16. Every Islamic value I had been taught instructed me to put myself last. Life on earth is a test, and if you manage to put yourself last in this life, you are serving Allah; your place will be first in the Hereafter. The more deeply you submit your will, the more virtuous that makes you.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#17. It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.
Charles Dickens
#18. Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
Abraham Lincoln
#20. I've got to be first. ALL the time.
Ty Cobb
#21. I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.
Phillip Lim
#22. When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
Robert Bridges
#23. Hugh Liedtke had a simple rule of thumb: Pick a name that started with either A or Z, so you would be first or last in the telephone listings. With that in mind, the team chose Zapata Petroleum Corporation, after the Marlon Brando movie Viva Zapata!, which was playing in Midland.
Jon Meacham
#24. First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.
Jeff Lindsay
#26. We want Florida to be first for jobs, and we must have a skilled workforce to reach that goal. By investing in science, technology, engineering and math education, we are ensuring our students are prepared for the jobs of the future. Our teachers are essential to preparing our students.
Rick Scott
#27. Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.
Steve Womack
#28. I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.
Joel Osteen
#29. Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything.
Israel Houghton
#30. Digital fit" should be first defined as "mind fit," and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.
Pearl Zhu
#31. While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.
John F. Kennedy
#32. The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
Algernon Blackwood
#33. Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.
Frederick Lenz
#34. If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.
John Ruskin
#35. The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance
Akhenaton
#36. I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
Javier Bardem
#37. If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
Gary Allan
#38. Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest
beginning, middle, and end
isnothing but dreams and smoke.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will even fight each to be first in line to support you.
Cheech Marin
#40. The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.
Isaac Newton
#42. But we're looking at 500 households - that's a lot of people. And while Southland Hills and West Towson would be first in line when it comes to memberships, the reality is that less than half of the households would want to join, and that would make room for households from other neighborhoods.
Mike Ertel
#43. The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.
John Denver
#44. Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.
C.S. Lewis
#45. The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#46. But with that burst of the fairness that he can never repress, he admits that conversion is unlikely as long as Christians exclude Jews from the community: There must be first conversing with them before there can be converting them.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#47. Every moment must be first known and then savored.
Anne Rice
#48. Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.
Karina Smirnoff
#49. He would always want me near him. I would always be first in his eyes. We were a good match. A perfect match. Soul mates.
Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust ... if you found the right person ... you really could have it all.
S.C. Stephens
#50. Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.
Ernie J Zelinski
#51. I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.
Elizabeth George
#52. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant and whoever wants to be first must be servant of all
Timothy Keller
#53. I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Epicurus
#54. When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.
Robert Herrick
#55. Go talk to Ben."
"Can I fuck my bride-to-be first please?"
"No. Ben first. Then me."
"I have to fuck Ben first? Good thing he's pretty.
Tiffany Reisz
#56. She wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deckful of days which seemed (wouldn't she be first to admit it?) more or less identical, or all pointing the same way subtly like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear to a trained eye.
Thomas Pynchon
#57. Put people first and you'll be first among people.
Todd Stocker
#58. When they figure out how to bottle up orgasms and sell them as a food additive, I'll be first in line.
Nenia Campbell
#59. You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.
Simon Pegg
#60. We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
John F. Kennedy
#61. Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
John Green
#62. The last shall be first and the first shall be last. This is exactly, when it comes down to it, why most people do not believe in grace. It is fucking offensive.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#63. If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Anita Roddick
#64. God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.
Amy Weber
#65. It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
Benjamin Whichcote
#66. If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
Douglas Horton
#67. Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
Philip Sidney
#68. With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.
John Boyne
#69. Moorehouse and Rogers, one of whom was the legendary Collins Rappaport as second chair. Parisi, as co-counsel to the law firm, would be first chair, and he would be doing hand-to-hand combat with her. Yuki
James Patterson
#71. Amos, talk about pearls for teeth ... you got 'em. No wonder the boys go for you, because I could too and if I had something to push between those pearly teeth I'd be first in line.
James Purdy
#72. Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
Anton Chekhov
#73. Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.
Chrisse Feros
#74. If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.
James J. Kilpatrick
#75. There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.
Holly Black
#76. Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.
Norman Chad
#77. He needed more and more of me. He would always want me near him. I would always be first in his eyes. We were a good match. A perfect match. Soul mates.
S.C. Stephens
#79. Nothing [ ... ] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Samuel Johnson
#80. I'm the first guy to drive long-distance on Mars. The first guy to spend more than thirty-one sols on Mars. The first guy to grow crops on Mars. First, first, first! I wasn't expecting to be first at anything.
Andy Weir
#81. No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
James Harrington
#82. I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.
Laozi
#83. You either have to be first, best, or different.
Loretta Lynn
#84. By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.
Laozi
#85. As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.
John Wesley
#86. I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.
Nikki Haley
#88. If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
Camille Paglia
#89. It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.
Marcus Aurelius
#90. We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.
Gherman Titov
#91. It was your idea. Only fair that if we get attacked, you should be first on their menu
Darren Shan
#92. I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.
Miuccia Prada
#93. The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.
Dewey Redman
#94. I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
Nick Cave
#95. I couldn't let how the team was doing affect my mindset on my rehabilitation because I sort of believe I had to take it upon myself that my rehabilitation and getting myself 100 percent healthy had to be first and foremost, before the team, in my mind,
Tedy Bruschi
#97. 304. Our service has to be first and foremost to God
Sunday Adelaja
#98. Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.
Vince Lombardi
#99. There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'
Nicola Sturgeon
#100. Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
Rudolf Virchow
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