Top 100 First You Quotes
#1. If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
George Carlin
#2. If you hate somebody, first you have to wound your own soul in so many ways; you have to be so full of poison that you can throw poison on others.
Osho
#3. Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly.
Fareed Zakaria
#4. It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
Ad Reinhardt
#5. If you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.
Adolf Hitler
#6. Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.
Howard Nemerov
#7. First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
Robert Creeley
#8. When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
E.L. Doctorow
#10. If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.
Kin Hubbard
#11. First you invite your brother's kids here. Now you want to do a play. What's next? A cruise?"
"What's with your family and suggesting cruises?" she laughed.
"That was in no way supposed to be taken as a suggestion!
Jennae Noelle
#12. First you have one sort of life and then you have another. I'm sorry, that must sound odd." "No it doesn't. That's what happens to everybody. You
Anna Quindlen
#13. It depends what competition you are in. When you go to the big meets it's all about who touches in first. You've got to get into that race and into that frame of mind so that you're ready to race and you're ready to work hard and finish first.
Jazmin Carlin
#14. Everyone needs that support-even if at first you don't think you do. Look around. See who's on your side and in your corner. You don't have to go it alone.
Louis Zamperini
#15. I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.
Donovan Bailey
#16. Even creating shit is hard to do. First, you need money to buy food. Then you have to chew it, eat it, and swallow. A complex process called digestion follows. Finally, you have to strain and excrete your foul smelling wonder into the world. Try doing that with a paint brush!
Jonathan Heatt
#17. First you shoot me," he muttered. "Now you're handin' me your damn club and spoutin' love poems." "She was sixteen, motherfucker, you woulda shot you." "No, asshole, I woulda killed me." At that, Preacher just kept grinning. Jesus, was he in the twilight zone?
Madeline Sheehan
#18. First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.
Joseph Campbell
#19. Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it' ... but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.
Dennis Miller
#20. If you ever have to choose between loving two people, always pick the second. If you really loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen in love with the second.
Johnny Depp
#21. Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.
Richard C. Miller
#22. You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#24. Emotions don't arrive intact. Shards injure you incrementally, so small at first you don't notice them. Over time, the damage builds and one day you realise the nicks and cuts have become gaping wounds. Worse still, they've become the very thing that defines you.
Nigel Jay Cooper
#25. The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
Thomas Sowell
#26. If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
Aaliyah
#27. You want poetry, first you have to muck in with humanity, you have to fight with paper and pencil for weeks and weeks until your heart bleeds: verses aren't channelled into your head by angels or muses or sprites of nature.
Stephen Fry
#29. If at first you don't succeed, you're doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach.
Steve Maraboli
#30. If at first you don't succeed, keep on succin' till you do succeed.
Curly Howard
#31. I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.
John Williams
#32. Unbelievable! You are unbelievable! First you ruin my life and then you blame it on my period!
Jane Aire
#33. Always get the facts first. You can distort them later.
Jill Shalvis
#34. If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
Banksy
#35. Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs. -Jaina Solo
Michael A. Stackpole
#36. To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Robert Browning
#37. First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me Animate
Gayle Forman
#38. I started drinking when I was like 15, and by the time I was 19 everybody knew I was an alcoholic. So I would start five fights every weekend and lose terribly. First you start off fighting with one person and then he beats you up; and then one guy would be laughing, so you would hit him, too.
Felipe Esparza
#39. I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.
Aasif Mandvi
#40. It is a strange pressure to be across from a man who wants something that you don't want to give. It's like standing in a forceful current, which at first you think is not too strong, but the longer you stand, the more tired you become, the harder it is to stay upright.
Stephanie Danler
#41. The best illusions aren't a matter of technology, but of performance. First, you open the minds of the audience. Then you fill them with exactly what you want them to know.
Dan Koboldt
#42. Don't try to be the next J.K. Rowling. Just try to be the first you.
Christina Daley
#43. First, you must light a middling fire under the cauldron."
"What's a middling fire?"
"Medium."
I searched the pot. "Where's the ignition switch?"
Bridget leaned in and whispered, "You use magic to start the fire.
Lowvee Cole
#44. Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.
Eric Idle
#45. You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
Neil Peart
#46. Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?
Jaclyn Moriarty
#47. Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first ... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
Elizabeth George
#48. First you have your baby, which in and of itself is a stunning feat. I won't go into specifics, but ouch and no thank you.
Ellen DeGeneres
#49. Life is like a game of chess ... there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move ... where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves ... but first you have to make some kind of move.
Mort Walker
#50. First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin' out how you passed it.
Terry Pratchett
#51. You are the secret. Let tarot guide you. And remember, if you want to embody the World card, first you must ask for it.
Sasha Graham
#52. In stages, that's how. First you let go of the things you loved.
Janet Fitch
#53. First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.
Chuck Klosterman
#55. The shadow of someone's greatness is not a good place to dwell. Being the next someone else pales into insignificance against being the first you.
John Paul Bernett
#56. Leave out the parts readers tend to skip. (Elmore Leonard)
First you do it for the love of it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money. (Moliere)
Jan Shapin
#57. If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.
Laurence J. Peter
#58. The state fair was all very well, but it shouldn't be the last thing you saw in your life. At first you thought of people like Eloise and Frank and Lillian as runaways, and then, after a bit, you knew they were really scouts.
Jane Smiley
#59. Now is the time ... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.
Ron Atchison
#60. On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you.
Elif Shafak
#61. We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
Rick Yancey
#62. First you love the music that your parents love - and then, later in life, you love the songs your kids love.
Elin Hilderbrand
#63. If you have to shine like the sun,
first you have to burn like it.
Adolf Hitler
#64. You can't sow without plowing first. First you have to break up the earth.
Alessandro Baricco
#65. If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
David Brent
#66. If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.
Various
#67. How come you girls want to be dating?.. First you fall in love, then you start dating, then you fall out of love, and then you split up again.
Pierre Anthon - to the author and Ursula-Marie
Janne Teller
#68. Peculiar, isn't it?" he said. "First you're scolding your children and then all at once they're so smart they're scolding you.
Anne Tyler
#69. First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
Jean Stapleton
#70. If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.
Christopher Titus
#71. I don't know what mentality you young girls have these days. What happened to loving yourself first? You have to love yourself and God first before you give yourself to man. You young girls just ass backwards.
P. Dotson
#72. Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
Seth Godin
#73. If you can just learn to think about the market first, you will have a big leg up on most people starting startups.
Sam Altman
#74. if at first you don't wake up try, try again...
Jayce O'Neal
#75. First, you must be certain that you are ready for knowledge. There are many things that we bury in our minds for a reason. Are you sure that you want to go digging up the past?"- Elsie (Marked Book #1) page 226
A.N. Meade
#76. 'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
Peter Landesman
#77. Everyone gets erased -- life consists of meeting people whom first you love and then you erase -- but you can't erase children, you can't erase parents.
Alejandro Zambra
#78. You are reading this book for two reasons. First, you are a programmer. Second, you want to be a better programmer. Good. We need better programmers.
Robert C. Martin
#79. Life is just like a game,
First you have to learn rules of the game,
And then play it better then any one else.
Albert Einstein
#80. Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear.
Katherine Paterson
#81. On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.
Nora Gallagher
#82. But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board.
Bear Bryant
#83. When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.
Jacques Pepin
#84. You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened ...
Michael Bentine
#85. A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
Roseanne Barr
#86. First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!
Homer
#87. To become a filthy rich, first you need to be filthy.
M.F. Moonzajer
#88. It's like what flight attendants tell you about the oxygen masks that plop down in an emergency: First you put yours on, and then you put it on the child next to you. She
Francisco X Stork
#89. Imagine teaching a fifteen-year-old how to drive a car with manual transmission. First, you have to press down the clutch. Then you have to whisper a secret into one of the cup holders.
Joseph Fink
#90. First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.
Alan Kulwicki
#91. Yes: the race is long-to finish first, first you must finish. ~p206
Garth Stein
#92. The phrase Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free is the most troubling because at first you think he's talking about when he told her to flee, presumably to safety. But then you wonder if he meant for her to run to him. To death.
Suzanne Collins
#93. First, you have to be visible in the community. You have to get out there and connect with people. It's not called net-sitting or net-eating. It's called networking. You have to work at it.
Ivan Misner
#94. Oh, it's a terrible, cruel thing - first you're young, and that takes up such a long time you think it's forever, then suddenly you're not young, and you never get used to it - and, oh dear, there's just the one way out.
Joyce Carol Oates
#95. When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because at first you think, "I won't have any shelter! What am I gonna do? The sun is hot. Very thirsty."
Jon Stewart
#96. Careful," he chided with a grin. "First you talk marriage and now you're telling me what to eat. You're sounding more and more like a real girlfriend every day. Just remember, this is still our first date, so keep your hands to yourself tonight. I'm not one of those guys.
Jennifer Shirk
#97. There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.
John Lennon
#98. He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.
Hal Borland
#99. If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.
Robert Henri
#100. I'm not an if at first you don't succeed kind of a girl. When it comes to marriage I'm more of a one and done type.
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