500 Quotes by Firsts

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you’ll never manage to button up.

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.

Act first, explain later.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, “What business am I in?” Second, “How’s business?”

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

If marriage isn’t a first priority in your life, you’re not married.

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.