"Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself."
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"The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day."
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"To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be."
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"I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then."
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"If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore."
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"In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal."
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"Self-preservation is the first law of nature."
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"Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite."
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"First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it."
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"A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first."
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"If you would seek health, look first to the spine."
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"Action first, mistakes second, lessons third."
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"Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe."
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"Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second."
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"The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends."
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"Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs."
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"Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success."
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"Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."
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"Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind."
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"The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks."
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