The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Voltaire

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
Voltaire

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
Jerry Garcia

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Lance Armstrong

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Rush Limbaugh

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Rush Limbaugh