Top 100 Before You Quotes
#1. Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
David Bach
#2. 6If I want to write, I write. So just do it. If you think that making time for writing is a problem, just wait until you finish a book, and find a great aching desert of emptiness stretching before you.
Thorne Moore
#3. You wake up and feel a sudden sadness that you never felt before. You try to find a reason behind it but you cannot. You think coffee might change the feeling. So you make yourself a hot cup of coffee and put on the music player. Do you feel better now?
Avijeet Das
#4. History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.
Alice Hoffman
#6. Before you assume...read all the facts. Before you judge...try to understand why and most important
before you speak...always think.
Timothy Pina
#7. When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.
Criss Jami
#9. On one end there was who you were before you went underground, and on the other end a new person steps out into the light.
Colson Whitehead
#10. The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.
Howard Storm
#11. But before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
Charles Bukowski
#12. Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.
Yves Chauvin
#13. Do not feel inadequate to face your life. You are designed to face life, but not alone. You are intended to be a part of me. Allow me to go before you and prepare the way.
Julia Cameron
#14. Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.
Grace Ogot
#15. Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.
Linus Torvalds
#16. I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.
Adam DeVine
#17. Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need now. He's not as stupid as everyone thinks. I like the guy.
James Woods
#18. You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead.
J.D. Robb
#19. The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down.
Colleen Hoover
#20. I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.
Dave Barry
#21. Don't be stupid. I have a gun." He reached into his pocket and pulled out the .45. "Which will knock you on your ass if you try firing with a bad leg. Sit down before you fall.
Kelley Armstrong
#22. The first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.
Jamaica Kincaid
#23. I hope you're enjoying it, though, duck, and not wasting all your time and energy in a thankless job. You've got to make the most of life and not let these little opportunities pass you by. Before you know it you'll be old and wrinkly like me and wishing you'd done more. Just make sure you're happy.
Giovanna Fletcher
#24. I have never known the mind of a wolf hunting a deer, but I imagine it must feel a little like this. The twisted excitement of seeing the weak and wounded cowering before you. The knowledge that, in this instant, you have the power to end its life or grant it mercy. In this moment, I am a god.
Marie Lu
#26. Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#27. He wondered if you could be exhausted without knowing it, if hope could be lost not all at once but could slip away gradually, day by day, and vanish before you ever realized.
Cassandra Clare
#28. For if you try to forget yourself, force your heart and thoughts to become indifferent to the sight before you and take share of that entity which seems like one of the courses of the meal.
Auliq Ice
#29. Get off my bed before you make it smell like girl germs.
Zathyn Priest
#30. Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.
John Bolton
#31. God will find you," said the priest quietly. "Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother's womb.
Sigrid Undset
#33. Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.
Thomas Leonard
#34. Think twice before you buy. Decide before you purchase anything where you are going to keep it and what you are going to use it for. If your answers to either of these questions are vague, then you are about to purchase clutter. Desist from buying.
Karen Kingston
#35. Before you die, please share your love with the unknown immortal existence which is in your body and unite with the divine to live in godliness after you die....
Vishal Chipkar
#36. You'll have your own superhero club before you know it. -Christian Ozera
Richelle Mead
#37. If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?
Ricky Gervais
#38. All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
Marguerite Young
#39. I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
Ben Katchor
#40. All I felt when I saw Vanessa was this weird sensation I used to get when I was a kid, like when you're at a friend's house and your mum comes to get you before you're ready.
Jojo Moyes
#41. Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#42. Think before you act. Reason before you react.
Kemi Sogunle
#43. How many times do I gotta flush before you go away, Derby?
Amy Cook
#44. When you're on the show that's not the time to make decisions. It's before you get on it, so you won't be swayed by pressure. Mentally prepare yourself for the show, and set goals for yourself and stick to them.
Carmen Rasmusen
#45. Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.
Cory Booker
#46. I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.
Joseph J. Ellis
#47. Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
Robert Jordan
#48. The best way to help those who are behind you is to heed those before you.
Jack Hyles
#50. You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
A.S. Byatt
#51. Your heart is where your inner light resides. It is part of every sacred journey to reconnect with your inner light, step into your divinity, spread the light of love before you, return to the essence of love, and inspire others to do the same.
Molly Friedenfeld
#52. Before you conclude that your options are limited, you need evidence that you cannot do something, rather than just deciding that you cannot do it.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#53. Think before you speak, because words can really hurt, and you can't take back what you said, because the damage is already done.
M. Clarke
#54. Rather than assuming make sure before you speak about the fact. Glory lies in your intentions.
Kishore Bansal
#55. Remember, as a responsible junior scientist, you must exercise caution before you ignite your gunpowder," the warning sternly cautioned.
Duly noted, sir. So let's get busy making explosives.
Rick Garvia
#56. A new car can be driven for 10 years or more if it's properly maintained. Heck, drive that sucker into the ground before you replace it!
Ian Lamont
#57. I find that sometimes if you just sit still, things have a way of finding you before you can find them.
Karen Lord
#58. Don't die before you're dead. And if you do, let it be the good kind...when the only part of you that dies is who you were supposed to be.
Scott Stambach
#59. Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.
Solange Nicole
#60. Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
Catherynne M Valente
#61. The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.
Mark Lanegan
#62. Maybe kids are the only ones capable of love. As good as it gets, before you get all fucked-up.
Katey Hawthorne
#63. You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.
Bill Hader
#64. I don't think I blushed once in my entire life before I met you," I say.
"There will be a lot of things your body never did before you met me," he brags unabashedly.
Lilly Black
#65. He tipped her head up. Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.
Melissa Marr
#66. Before you can write a single sentence, you must first create an entire world to support it.
Adam Santo
#67. You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.
Max McKeown
#68. You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.
Jenna Morasca
#69. Think before you speak but you must READ before you think
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#70. If you put any effort into anything you do and have a strong sense of self to the point where you don't even question your choices before you walk out of the house - you're a fucking weirdo.
Jen Kirkman
#71. It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.
Wally Lamb
#72. We dream of the future, to distract ourselves from the present, in order to forget the past.
Heal the past, live in the present and don't rush to the future. Life is a journey and it will all be over before you know it.
L.J. Vanier
#73. Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.
Jim Butcher
#74. When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.
Jeffrey Walker
#75. Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.
Rocco DiSpirito
#76. The wind blows back my hair and I don't know if I've ever felt so alive and electric before. Maybe this is how life is the moment before you die, everything exploding around you to make saying goodbye that much more bittersweet.
Karina Halle
#77. You're presence here has caused a fresh buzz amoung the young women. You need to find one who suits you before you're too old.
Cindy Woodsmall
#78. How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.
Marcus Aurelius
#80. Before you say anything censorious about anyone, ask yourself three questions: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If the answer to any one of these is even a qualified no, you'd best be quiet." And she remembered it. Miss
Helen Epstein
#81. As Jack Handey advised in one of his "Deep Thoughts" on Saturday Night Live, before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Adam M. Grant
#82. No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.
Terry Pratchett
#83. You better introduce yourself before you start talking Latin.
Larry McMurtry
#84. Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.
Rohinton Mistry
#85. Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions.
Forgive yourself and every one else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much
more rapidly.
Joseph Murphy
#86. Teaching ... can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.
Marie Clay
#87. Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
Mitch Albom
#88. You've got to do what you know before you know what you're doing."
Duke Madison, Jazz Musician
Andy Martello
#89. The essence of building your own brand. People having heard of you - and having a positive impression - before you've even met them. If you can create that effect, doors open for you. A close second, if that's not possible, is people getting a good impression of o very quickly when they Google you
Michael Ellsberg
#90. If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.
Abby Wambach
#91. I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.
Julianne Hough
#92. Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.
Joe Abercrombie
#93. No one before you has gotten to me this way.
Joey Fatone
#94. That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.
Haruki Murakami
#95. Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.
Greg Graffin
#96. The truth is, sometimes you have to get left before you can get right. Sometimes God will take you left on your journey to get you right, to do a work in you that will prepare you for what He has for you.
Jentezen Franklin
#97. You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#98. Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.
Scipio Africanus
#99. Manifestation is like a flower, you must put so much intent into its energy before you can sight its beauty.
Nikki Rowe
#100. What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Jodi Picoult
