Top 100 Foremost Quotes
#1. Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
Warren G. Bennis
#2. As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
#3. The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
Ruth Benedict
#4. First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
Harold Ramis
#5. The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
Auguste Rodin
#6. It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo.7 To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control.
Marya Hornbacher
#7. First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.
Kim Mathers
#8. You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#9. Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
Horst Koehler
#10. It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.
David Wroblewski
#11. I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
Bruce LaBruce
#12. The foremost thing is to realize that IT is strategic at board level.
Pearl Zhu
#13. Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
James C. Collins
#14. First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.
Adam Arkin
#15. The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#16. Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
Jim DeMint
#17. Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
James Cook
#18. Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.
Jon Katz
#19. He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
Gottfried Leibniz
#20. First and foremost, I am a mom. I get the most fulfillment being with my family.
Mallika Chopra
#21. Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."
Edward Young
#22. I shall always think of myself first and foremost ... as a hunter.
Abraham Lincoln
#23. First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.
Bell Hooks
#24. First and foremost, there is one God, and his name does not matter. Yahweh, Ahuramazda, Zeus, Aten, it does not matter at all.
Anne Rice
#25. I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
Pierce Brosnan
#26. According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.
Wayne Mack
#27. When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.
Harry Belafonte
#29. Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
James C. Collins
#30. I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.
Candice Olson
#31. You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.
Steve Pavlina
#32. The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They were Americans first and foremost, and so were the people they saved.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#33. Keep clearly in mind the following truth: the things we keep foremost in our mind get our attention, and whatever gets our attention, gets done!
Josh Hinds
#34. I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.
Nicholas Sparks
#35. Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.
Margaret Oliphant
#36. I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.
Joe Carnahan
#37. But she did believe that the fundamentals of most people remained the same throughout their lifetimes. People who were generous usually remained generous, unless life taught them not to be. And people who saw the world through the prism of their own needs first and foremost would always be that way.
Sarah Mayberry
#38. I agree with Rand that human nature is selfish, that we should help ourselves first and foremost ... Where I differ with her is that I think we can and should help ourselves and others at the same time as a conscious goal.
Robert Peate
#39. I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
Diana Ross
#40. It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.
Vince Carter
#41. The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.
Jean-Pierre Rives
#42. Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends. Any other assessment of the situation is mere idealism.
Jacques Ellul
#43. I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.
Kathryn Lasky
#44. A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself.
Sri Aurobindo
#45. I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.
Pharrell Williams
#46. thinker sees in his own actions attempts and questionings to obtain information about something or other; success and failure are answers to him first and foremost.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time.
Sean Bean
#48. I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
Tift Merritt
#49. I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.
John B. Hood
#50. Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost.
Michelle Obama
#51. To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.
Orhan Pamuk
#52. Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.
James Carlos Blake
#53. First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
Mikheil Saakashvili
#54. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Martin Buber
#55. Sow yourself first and foremost in something today
Sunday Adelaja
#56. Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
Winston Churchill
#57. My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly, it's been a long road and very difficult journey. But I'm just happy that after all these years we were able to win and reach the goal that I had come here for.
Hideki Matsui
#58. I write for myself first and foremost, but I hope that others will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Shannon DuBey
#59. My definition of prayer is simply communicating with God. It's a love relationship first and foremost. Prayer is baring your soul to the One who loved you before you even knew of Him and letting Him speak to your heart.
Stormie O'martian
#60. If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
Nellie Melba
#61. Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#62. First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.
Barry Richards
#63. My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.
Fergie
#64. He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour .
Andrew Dickson White
#65. Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
J. Michael Straczynski
#66. True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.
Kevin Allen
#67. one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is
David Mitchell
#68. Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children.
Bill Hybels
#69. My books have always been safe spaces, sanctuaries for Queer folk, first and foremost, but all are welcome.
Andrew Demcak
#70. I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
Jack Brickhouse
#71. Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.
Kedar Joshi
#72. The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#73. What could be more full of meaning? - for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world.
Herman Melville
#74. I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
Stanley Tucci
#75. I know what it takes to be a good boyfriend. Time, first and foremost. To be there for someone and be involved in their life.
Matthew Morrison
#76. Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
Marilyn Hacker
#77. I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#78. For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.
Frantz Fanon
#79. 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
#80. First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
Victoria Beckham
#81. A Jewish deli should specialize in, first and foremost, Yiddish foods, the foods of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. So, if it's a place that specializes in pizza or chicken wings or diner food and then does a corned beef sandwich on the side, it's not a Jewish delicatessen.
David Sax
#82. The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.
William Ramsay
#83. The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
Philip Kerr
#84. Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.
Nigel Kennedy
#85. From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.
Marquis De Lafayette
#86. A quota for women always amounts to a failure of politics. For me, economics is first and foremost the ability to act freely without state rules. That's why I believe quotas should only be used as a last resort.
Kristina Schroder
#87. This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.
Joe Theismann
#88. I can't find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners.
Rob Bell
#89. You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.
Janina Gavankar
#90. As first and foremost a character actor, I've always resisted the temptation to cure any of the people I've played or make them lovable in any way; you've just got to celebrate them for what they are.
Martin Clunes
#91. The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend.
George Gordon Byron
#92. I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
Paloma Faith
#93. Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#94. At that age, I was, first and foremost, a thing to be judged, and that shifted the power in every interaction onto the other person. The
Emma Cline
#95. First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.
Anthony Hemingway
#96. I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.
Lucinda Williams
#97. First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.
Donald Trump
#98. Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.
James C. Collins
#99. Was none who would be foremost
To lead such dire attack;
But those behind cried "Forward!"
And those before cried "Back!
Thomas B. Macaulay
#100. My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.
Cole Hauser
