Quotes with first

Quotes 1501 till 1511 of 1511.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Before you can do something you must first be something.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Pablo Picasso Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Armstrong Williams For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bryan Robson I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Barbara Ward Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Denis Diderot Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Bob Beauprez My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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