John Baines Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by John Baines
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Related topics: Positive
First Sayings
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
In rivers, the water that you touch
is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which comes;
so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Faith Sayings
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Non-violence is the article of faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
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