My legacy doesn’t matter. It isn’t important that I be remembered. It’s important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ I want to finish strong.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
I leave before being left. I decide.
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, ‘Why don’t you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?’
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn’t thought of before and that aren’t talked about in the news all the time.
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It’s like going to get all the ingredients together, and you’ve got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake – or not.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
You give before you get.
I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting. My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.
When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That’s just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn’t imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer – seeing what it can do to somebody – as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.
At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.
A smart girl leaves before she is left.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I’d never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.
I didn’t think I had time for fishing before I fished.
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and the work that we have all put in to be in this space. I think of that, and being able to express myself through my art and show up and be present – that’s activism, advocacy, and artistry in itself.
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White’s ‘The Making of the President,’ the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Zayn’s good to just sit down and chat to about pretty much anything. At the end of the night, we just sit around and talk about our life before One Direction, or anything at all, really.
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they’ve written or painted or composed before. I can’t imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don’t want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
