Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country's first president?

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

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.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

I act, but I'm not necessarily an actor. Acting is just the first thing people see when they look at me. So I'd like to do more things.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

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