500 Quotes by Firsts

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third – ultimately that’s in the best interest of customers and shareholders.

Oh darling, don’t be bitter. It’s the first instinct of the weak.

Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.