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Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
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A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
The person who you're with most in life is yourself
and if you don't like yourself,
you're always with somebody you don't like.
- Marc S. Lewis
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel
Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
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
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
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
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
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
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
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
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
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
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
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