To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Jim Rohn

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Jimi Hendrix

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao Tzu

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway