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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith, Whole, Step

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Nothing, Saying, Living

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Experience, Wisdom, May

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith, Whole, Step

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Peace, Happiness, Family

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Work, Power, Whatever

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln

Labor, Higher, Superior

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi

Fight, Laugh, Win

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain

Facts, Please, Distort

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou

Time, Someone, Shows

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Down, Give, Four

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot

Time, End, Place

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.

Good, Help, Him

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom, Book, Honesty

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Lives, Run

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

Love, Yourself, Everything

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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Beauty, Truth

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Love, Peace, Money

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Fool, Try, Again

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

God, School, Made

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Learned, Said

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Women, Men

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

Nature, Great, God

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark Twain

Best, Morning, Job

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Happy, Wife, Two

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya

Person, Honest, Screwed

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The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

Love, Listen, Duty

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Political, Nation

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

Judge, Tending, Whither

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

Love, Curiosity

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