Top 100 First Be Quotes
#1. But it's not just "Do you want a hit?" More importantly, it has to be something we - the artist and I - like. If you go in just wanting a hit song, it's not going to happen that way. You have to first be committed to making music you like.
Lukasz Gottwald
#2. It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.
Susan Fenimore Cooper
#3. My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.
Hajo Meyer
#5. Any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.
Theodore Annemann
#6. First be effective and then be efficient.
Ron Kaufman
#7. Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.
Francis Quarles
#8. I have never seen a food writer mention this, but all shrimp imported into the United States must first be washed in chlorine bleach to kill bugs. What this does for the taste, I do not know, but I think we should be told.
Charles Clover
#9. Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.
Ken Blanchard
#12. All that is to live in endless song Must in life-time first be drown'd.
Sigmund Freud
#13. To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
Thomas Pynchon
#14. For us to expect development in our nations, we must first bring development to the minds and understandings of our people.
The change we quest for outwardly must first be attained inwardly.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. Mobile isn't just another content-delivery mechanism. Don't try to be mobile first. Be user first. Context over content, that's the lesson of mobile.
Jeff Jarvis
#16. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. To find the right person, you must first BE the right person.
Merrill Markoe
#18. Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
Thomas Carlyle
#19. Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.
Goswami Kriyananda
#20. In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. The mistake people that want to be actors make is to move to New York or L.A. right away. But it's like ... go act somewhere first. Be an actor. A story is a story, and an audience is an audience, no matter where you're doing it.
Conrad Ricamora
#22. In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
Winston Churchill
#24. But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.
Suzanne Collins
#25. If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.
Allan W. Eckert
#26. I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the very moment that I come into possession of them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#27. Allow God to have complete liberty in your life when you speak. Before God's message can liberate other people, His liberation must first be real in you. Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to "set your words on fire" for His glory.
Oswald Chambers
#28. If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.
Emile Coue
#29. To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government ... The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#30. To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
Al-Ghazali
#31. The true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#32. Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.
Ufuoma Apoki
#33. In order to make friends you must first be friendly
Dale Carnegie
#34. Just as in our bodies, every cell must first be "Celfish"; solely responsible for its own survival and once those conditions are met, the value is passed on. That is Free Market Capitalism at the cellular level.
Carl T. Johnson
#35. For a nation to be corruption free, that culture must first be created through the proclamation and propaganda of a correspondent value system.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#38. 4.04 APOLOGY
A second insult be just a stiff apology,
As the first be when hurt was the party;
Damages for aggrieved no medicine be,
But healing from hurt - the desire only.
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Munindra Misra
#39. To understand my feelings - and my conception of the role of Secretary General - the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.
U Thant
#40. Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
Samuel Johnson
#41. That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#42. Before you can do something you must first be something.
John Gielgud
#43. You cannot, you cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
Audre Lorde
#44. Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Zi
#46. Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken
M T Anderson
#47. 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
#48. A message to women in general is be happy with yourself first. Be sure that you take care of yourself and find yourself. Be comfortable! And you will be way more appealing. Do what's best for you, and everything will fall into place.
Raven Goodwin
#49. If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.
Alexander Whyte
#50. In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#51. And when we come to search for God, Let us first be robed in night, Put on the mind of morning To feel the rush of light Spread slowly inside The color and stillness Of a found world.
John O'Donohue
#52. Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
Thomas Merton
#53. When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She
Jonathan Odell
#55. Enlightened people and serene landscapes can help to elevate our inner bliss but the awareness must first be realized from within.
Christopher Dines
#56. If you want to be whole, you must first be partial.
James Frey
#58. Love is brave and generous and above all it springs from honor. In order to love someone else, you must first be true to yourself.
Love is not two people wanting or needing what the other can give.
Hester Latterly
Anne Perry
#59. In one simple sentence: what Christians want for the nation should first be a witnessed reality in their local church.
Scot McKnight
#61. What should be shrunken must first be stretched.
Laozi
#62. The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.
Ernest Holmes
#63. Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best.
M. Lincoln Schuster
#64. If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Anita Roddick
#65. Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
Philip Sidney
#66. For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
R.C. Sproul
#67. Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.
Christopher Anderson
#68. You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
Tim Cahill
#69. That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.
Stephen Return Riggs
#70. First, be aware of this: scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, following their own lusts. 2 Peter 3:3
Beth Moore
#71. My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
Gregory Crewdson
#73. DENNIS, in order to die, one must first be alive."
"Quod erat demonstrandum. Oh, yes, and also: I think, therefore I am.
Keith Caserta
#74. In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Charles Baudelaire
#75. Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred.
David Pietrusza
#76. Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.
Emma Goldman
#77. Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything.
Bruce Lee
#78. Anybody can be a believer; but anybody cannot be a good man! First, be good; then, in addition to this, be whatever you wish!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I
Ayn Rand
#80. Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Jim Rohn
#81. But oh, my brothers, black folk ain't never goin' to be led from bondage without they has pride! Black folk ain't goin' to be free, they ain't goin' to have no spoonbread an' sweet cider less'n they studies to love they own selves. Only then will the first be last, and the last first.
William Styron
#82. Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.
David Crockett
#83. Sometimes it's not until you see your shackles that you see your dreams. The soul must first be caged before it can be set free.
Ken Ilgunas
#85. Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. Being born again by the Spirit of God means that we must first be willing to let go before we can grasp something else.
Oswald Chambers
#87. Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
Jesse Ventura
#88. You must first be a king of your own personal kingdom. If you can't lead that kingdom on your own two feet, you can't lead a bigger kingdom
Na'im Akbar
#89. I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
Bennie Thompson
#90. To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.
Debasish Mridha
#91. I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.
John Dryden
#93. To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.
Bill Crawford
#94. The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends ... then self mastery can be sought.
Laozi
#95. To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.
Irvin D. Yalom
#96. The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.
Alfred Sisley
#97. In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
Madelaine Standing
#98. Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.
Harold Speed
#99. Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
Antonio Machado
#100. It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat
Jeffrey Burton Russell
