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Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
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
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.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
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
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
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
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-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
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