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The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Related topics: Values Purpose
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
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
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
-Sheri Rosenthal
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
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
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
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spirit is always waiting to rush into us,
but we are too full of worldly things.
It is like trying to pour fine wine into a cup filled with mud -
the wine is waiting, but the mud must be removed first.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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