First Quotes

In life, we can't always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. This second arrow is optional.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

I am the first soldier of the German Reich... I will not take it off again until victory is secured or I will not survive the outcome.

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