Quotes About Firsts In Life

#1. A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Oskar Homolka

#3. A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

William Beebe

#4. The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

Georges Bataille

#5. They say you always remember the big firsts in your life. I will never forget the morning I was outwitted by an almost-four-year-old for the first time.

E.L. Phillips

#6. Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

John Irving

#7. In order to change your life outside, you must first change inside

Louise Hay

#8. The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Jann Arden

#9. I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

Laurence Olivier

#10. If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

Joyce Meyer

#11. The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

Denis Waitley

#12. Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.

Chris Guillebeau

#13. Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life.

LaMar Boschman

#14. The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Dallas Willard

#16. The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

John Irving

#17. She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

Judy Blume

#18. Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#19. I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Salman Rushdie

#20. The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

Vy Higginsen

#21. Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

Peter Menzel

#22. For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

Lionel Barrymore

#23. In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

Carl Icahn

#24. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

Michel'le

#25. You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5).

John C. Broger

#26. There are only 2 reasons that someone would want something in their life and not get it. First, they don't know what to do and second, they know what to do and don't know how to get themselves to do it consistently, if at all.

Marshall Sylver

#27. I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

Diane Wakoski

#28. We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.

Guy Finley

#29. A person's own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.

Anuj

#30. It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

James A. Baldwin

#31. At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

Ram Dass

#32. To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Cecil Rhodes

#33. The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.

Brian Tracy

#34. We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.

Harold Klemp

#35. Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.

John H. Groberg

#36. It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#37. One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

#38. I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

Paul McCartney

#39. Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

John C. Maxwell

#40. The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.

Tom Robbins

#42. Life is a bank account, there are no withdrawals without first putting something in.

Ray Torres

#43. If you learn to respond as if it's the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

David Steindl-Rast

#44. So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.

Christopher Durang

#45. I do remember how sexy my collection was after I first got involved with Stephan [Weiss]. That's one thing I don't have in my life now and ... if anything, that's one thing I would love.

Donna Karan

#46. 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

#47. Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

Mark Knopfler

#48. Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.

Jim Rohn

#49. The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others ...

Pico Iyer

#50. I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

James Tiptree Jr.

#51. I think the one thing I would point to as a primary reason, basically, is that I was a gigantic ass, ... It's the first time I got dumped in my life.

David Letterman

#52. I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football
too many
but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.

Ricky Williams

#53. Transformed worship is a life lived in Christ and for Christ ... If you are to lead engaging worship, you must first recognize your own need for Christ and His Spirit to live in you.

John Chisum

#54. Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#55. There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, "I will never live in fear again."

Ben Gibbard

#56. The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

Ben Stein

#57. Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!

Lisa Vidal

#58. I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri ... My life began at this point.

George Bellows

#59. I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

Christian Hosoi

#60. In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

Abbas Kiarostami

#61. The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

Joseph Campbell

#62. I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

Bo Bice

#63. If u behave differently, u will be expelled from the tribe because u can infect others and destroy something that was extremely difficult to organize in the first place.

Paulo Coelho

#64. When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

William Styron

#65. You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Elbert Hubbard

#66. If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!

Michael Eisen

#67. Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life.

Dean Koontz

#68. It's been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I've found this to be very true in my own life. If I'm lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.

Steve Pavlina

#69. Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.

Annie Leonard

#70. In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of death into life, as the monster takes his revenge on the father who gave him life but withheld recognition.

Laura Mullen

#71. I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

Jane Fonda

#72. If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place.

Wayne Dyer

#73. And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.

William Eggleston

#74. There are miracles in life I must achieve. But first I know it starts inside of me.

R. Kelly

#75. You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.

Toni Kroos

#76. Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

John Stuart Mill

#77. 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

#78. It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

Jonathan Swift

#79. A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

David Jeremiah

#80. Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

Frederick Lenz

#81. [But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

Edward Gibbon

#82. All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

John Frusciante

#83. I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.

Marc Maron

#84. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#85. Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what makes it interesting. In life the first act is always exciting. The second act, that is where the depth comes in.

Joyce Van Patten

#86. In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.

J. Vernon McGee

#87. Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education ... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days.

Michael Haneke

#88. I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

Steve Martin

#89. That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

Benjamin Disraeli

#90. The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

#91. First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

Anuj

#92. It's not unheard of, in the course of life, that if there's enough interest in it, we could consider going a second season or doing another chapter. I keep looking at it as books in a series, and this season is the first book.

Remi Aubuchon

#93. One of the best things about life - a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only - is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.

Sophia Amoruso

#94. It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom."

John Ortberg

#95. I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.

Kurt Fuller

#96. In fact, the first time I ever got naked on TV was the biggest confidence booster of my life.

Lizzy Caplan

#97. Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

Stefan Zweig

#98. If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

Joseph Campbell

#99. The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

Matthew McConaughey

#100. I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.

Michael Spinks