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“I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Lasts Young Next Virtue Growing Youth Generous Young Man Sentiments Old Man Acquaintance Growing Old

Author:Samuel Johnson

“If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.”

Ifs Firsts Children Important Country Natural Tree Duty Elements Resources Our Children Forests Conservation Natural Resources

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.”

Ifs Firsts Long News Fairs Ideals Journalism Reports Accurate Unbiased Good Journalism

Author:Walter Cronkite

“One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Littles Ideals Garden Plant Simplicity Satisfied Peace Of Mind Arbitrary Novices

Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.”

Ifs Firsts Judgment Reflection Gains Checks Length

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.”

People Ifs Way Firsts One Thing Laughter Saint Shakes Cynical Catholic Saint

Author:Carlo Borromeo

“The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you. They are therefore wise who make themselves an asset. We can be our own worst enemies or best friends. We can be a source of trouble or a cure for trouble. So if you feel empty, as many do, start by getting free from yourself as a first stop to vibrant living.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Persons Life Is Enemy Successful Wise Trouble Worst Source Empty Block Cures Assets Worst Enemy Successful Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Said Would Be Duty Expectations Apples Ceo

Author:Steve Jobs

“If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all”

Ifs Firsts Influence Pages Adults Letters Following Indian Milk Journal Infant Printed Headlines Education For All

Author:Lala Lajpat Rai

“My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands”

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Firsts Ideas Promise Office Vote Bigger Voting More Time Andrew

Author:Will Rogers

“I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

“No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.”

Ifs Way Mind Firsts May Made Soul Matter Use Evil Sin Acting Moral Figures Judging Personality Guilt Committed Contrary Welcome Rejection Touched Infamy Power Of Thought

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Humor Funny Fields Humorous Machines Sight Israel Destroyed Primitive Pulling Shocked Tractors

Author:Golda Meir

“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”

Ifs Men Years Firsts Use Used Three House Given Taken Fields Return Garden Claims Possession Owners Three Years

Author:Hammurabi

“Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.”

Ifs Firsts Habit Mouths Coffee Bread Awful Milk Cows Calamity

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.”

Ifs World Want Firsts Humans Heart War Motivational Term Realizing Natural Justice Enemy Skins Minorities Wands Rascals Natural Enemies

Author:Alan Watts

“The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty, war, disease and famine. But I also realized that this state of affairs wasn't necessarily a given, and that we have it in our power to make a difference, to make the world a better place for all. We have that choice. One thing's for sure, though - if we do nothing, it will be a given.”

Ifs World Firsts War States Motivational Choices Given Differences My Own Poverty One Thing Television Equal Disease Fairs Affair Making A Difference Reports Better Place Famine

Author:Chrissie Wellington

“People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock, it has to be created like a song. It is not a thing, it is significance that you bring through your consciousness.”

People Ifs Firsts Doe Seems Motivational Lying Song Consciousness Wonder Rocks Meaning Of Life Significance Meaning Life Life Means

Author:Rajneesh

“If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.”

Ifs Firsts Buttons Coats Crooked

Author:Giordano Bruno

“Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.”

People Ifs Needs Firsts Reason Helping Motivational Running Remember Lines Leader Vision Crosses Connected Pace Finish Line

Author:John C. Maxwell

“If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.”

Ifs Firsts Motivational Grows Water Flower

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.”

Ifs World Want Inspirational Trying Firsts Helping Effects Bigger Impact Our Family Changing The World

Book:Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.”

Ifs Firsts Light Humility Buddhism Eternity First Things First

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. In climbing, take careful note of the difficulties along your way; for as you go up , you can observe them. Coming down, you will no longer see them, but you will know they are there if you have observed them well.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Wells Doe Motivational Forever Difficulty Notes Careful Take Care Bother Climbing Summit Why Bother

Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Would Be Humorous Strikes Destructive Seconds Stalemate

Author:Ronald Reagan

“If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Firsts Character Focus Talent Greatness Primaries

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Philosophy Might Life Is Subjects Effects Particular Cat Valuable Graves Superiors Mice Beaten Remarks Pessimist

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.”

Ifs Want Writing Firsts Mean Book Tvs Amount Ridiculous

Author:Josh Lieb

“Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Wells Said Done Facts Inspiration Film Wonderful Mets Paid Compliment Adaptation Never Quit Juliet Oh Well Romeo Juliet

Author:Ian Mckellen

“If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.”

Ifs Knows Giving Firsts I Can Reason Use Values Order Know How Havens Gun Give Me Meals Department Take Me License Qualified Concealed Screening Handguns Sheriffs Wendy Concealed Carry

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.”

“When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.”

Ifs Trying Years Firsts Two Jobs Parent Comedy College Work Out Pursue Noses Grindstone

Author:Ben Schwartz

“To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Feelings Hands Fall Love Is Steps Losing Falling In Love First Steps Balanced Uneasy Uneasy Feelings

Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Hard Enough Hard Work Broken Careful Consideration Precious Things

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?”

Ifs Firsts Fire Cutting Burning Fuel Ignite Inferno

Author:Arun Manilal Gandhi

“If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.”

Ifs Should Firsts Care Order Four Land Security Praying Insecurity Quarters Tranquility If You Care Personal Security

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need for relaxed play that make learning possible in the first place... learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, learning will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning.”

Ifs Way Needs Trying Firsts Children Play Goal Teaching Achieve Design Discipline Curiosity Good Times Controlled Unpredictable Relaxed Conditioning Boundless Individualistic

Author:Roger Fouts

“It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts May Obvious Valuable Contribution

Author:Morris Graves

“If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?”

Ifs Firsts Dog Conversation Ran Vegan Shelter Marathon Wedges

Author:Ken Jennings

“Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.”

Ifs Want Should Firsts Looks Answers Economics

Author:Emily Oster

“If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Priorities

Author:Chalene Johnson

“Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.”

People Ifs Want Should Trying Firsts Class Crime Treats Careful Criminals Staring Be Careful Hobbies First Class

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again! I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. Particularly, it was only Islam that provided satisfactory answer to the question relating to the birth of Christ. For the first time I was convinced about the religion itself. I pray my family members might appreciate these facts.”

Ifs Firsts Facts Might Found Felt Christ Born Answers Christianity Praying Birth Members First Time Appreciate My Family Islam Convinced I Pray Born Again Family Members Queries

Author:Jermaine Jackson

“Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game except for that first playoff game. He went and beat Peyton Manning…Then that means he went and beat Tom Brady…Then he would either have to beat Aaron Rodgers or the Seattle Seahawks. That’s a pretty tough hill to climb. If he does that, he’s just solidified himself in that conversation as an elite quarterback.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Doe Games Winning Conversation Beats Tough Luck Hills Climbs Elites Toms Bowls Quarterback Super Bowl Andrew Seattle Playoffs Brady Peyton Playoff Games Aaron Rodgers

Author:Charles Woodson

“It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts Dying Instant Reborn

Author:Jonathan Weiner

“Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again.”

Ifs Giving Mind Firsts Heart War Body Passion Winning Loses Battle Objectives

Author:Greg Plitt

“If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .”

Ifs Years Firsts Havens Students Understood

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this. I will triumph over you.”

Ifs World Firsts May I Can Real Whole Fantasy Comfort Letting Go First Time Built Independent Clarity Curious Triumph Over You Agony Numbness Vistas

Author:Julie Berry

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