Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston Churchill

My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

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

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius