Top 95 Preceded By Quotes
#1. A conversation with her is a special pleasure because there are no words that are not preceded by thoughts.
Irin Carmon
#2. Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#3. Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were preceded by a period of isolation in the mountains.
Dick Swaab
#4. No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#5. All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.
Yi-Fu Tuan
#6. I get a text from my grandfather informing me that my grandmother is cooking us dinner. His text ended with the word "roast," preceded by a hash tag.
Colleen Hoover
#7. The promises of the Old Covenant were preceded by an "if" that made them conditional on man's obedience, while the promises of the New Covenant were marked by a divine monergism:
Pascal Denault
#9. Human Technology suggests that meditative experience can be deeper if preceded by stimulation and energizing our bodies and breath.We do this through "meridian exercises", an effective way of moving our bodies to improve our breath-work and to enhance our awareness while energizing our bodies.
Ilchi Lee
#10. If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
Karel Capek
#11. Every divine appointment is preceded by a season of preparation. And if we submit to the preparation, God will fulfill His promise. If we don't, He won't. Why? Because God never sets us up to fail.
Mark Batterson
#12. Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
Sylvia Earle
#13. Young shoots contain enough cyanide to kill a horse. Death is mercifully swift, usually caused by cardiac arrest or respiratory failure and preceded by only a few hours of anxiety, convulsions, and staggering about.
Amy Stewart
#14. Deepak Chopra once said: "All great changes are preceded by chaos.
Alessandra Torre
#15. When every action of yours is preceded by witnessing, then every move you make in this world becomes perfect and significant.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#17. We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
Helena Blavatsky
#18. Success is frequently preceded by a chain of fails.
Ben Tolosa
#19. The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.
Bryant McGill
#20. Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.
Mel Gibson
#21. Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
Brian Tracy
#22. Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
John Harvey-Jones
#23. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller
#24. A desired qualification must be preceded by the endeavor to prove that it is deserved
Shubha Vilas
#25. Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.
Mark Helprin
#26. The first moment of consciousness of the new being must be preceded by its substantial cause, which must be a moment of consciousness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#27. DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'
Gustave Flaubert
#28. The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
Jonathan Swift
#29. The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
Erwin Rommel
#30. Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep
John Dickinson
#31. Every result or goal you want to achieve is preceded by a process. The secret to success is to remain unconditionally committed to your (day-to-day) process without being emotionally attached to your (day-to-day) results. Be emotionally engaged, but not emotionally attached.
Hal Elrod
#32. Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.
James Allen
#33. Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.
John Green
#34. I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
Andre Gide
#35. all lasting change is preceded by changed thinking.
Tommy Newberry
#36. The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.
Thomas Paine
#37. All human progress is preceded by new questions
Tony Robbins
#38. Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.
Brian Tracy
#39. Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.
Edward St. Aubyn
#41. President and Mrs. Kennedy would walk into the East Room with their honored guests, preceded by the military color guard, who then posted their flags behind the receiving line. This ceremony never failed to move all of us, no matter how many times the staff witnessed it.
Letitia Baldrige
#42. Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.
Rudolf Virchow
#43. It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.
Mark Twain
#44. There are some men apparently born to be the reverse of the coin; their name is a continuation, and is never written except preceded by the conjunction "and." Their existence is not their own.
Victor Hugo
#45. The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.
Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#46. Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
M.F.K. Fisher
#47. Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph Addison
#48. Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.'
Ezekiel Emanuel
#49. Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.
Andy Stanley
#50. Mustn't all significant action be preceded by an incubation period?...the waiting period is not just a delay to be endured in order to reach the right moment. It is... the very creator of that moment.
Robert V. Levine
#51. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
Saul Alinsky
#52. Spectacular performances are preceded by spectacular preparation
Frank Giampaolo
#53. The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#54. Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.
Frans Johansson
#55. All great success is preceded by failure.
Brian Tracy
#56. I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
Zephyr Teachout
#58. Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
Earl Nightingale
#59. Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.
Steven Furtick
#60. Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.
Paulo Freire
#61. Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change,
Mark Miller
#62. Everywhere a greater joy is preceded by a greater suffering,
Philip Yancey
#63. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression.' John Harvey Jones
Peter Taylor
#64. Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head.
Nuno Oliveira
#65. Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand.
Chris Matakas
#66. Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.
Ameen Rihani
#67. Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.
Uma Thurman
#68. It often happened that after death faces become softened and even resolved into their youthful beauty, that this was especially so when death had been preceded by any acute or prolonged suffering.
Bram Stoker
#69. I prefer to have one gigantic laugh preceded by several smaller laughs rather than a bunch of medium laughs all along.
Ron Shock
#70. Life has taught Alice Bhatti that every little step forward in life is preceded by a ritual humiliation. Every little happiness asks for a down payment. Too many humiliations and a journey that goes in circles means that her face is permanently in the red. She accepts that role. 'I'll do my best'.
Mohammed Hanif
#71. Because it demands large-scale paradigm destruction and major shifts in the problems and techniques of normal science, the emergence of new theories is generally preceded by a period of pronounced professional insecurity.
Thomas S. Kuhn
#72. The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.
Chip Heath
#73. Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.
Louis Zamperini
#74. Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than id hatred had not preceded it.
Baruch Spinoza
#75. The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.
Ben Lerner
#76. THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years
women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin.
Yolanda A. Reid
#77. The easily perceptible linear thread through our lives causes a basic misunderstanding when we tend to give the same weight to years, months, and days. The briefest moments can have an explosive power that overwhelms the time around them including what preceded them.
David Burkett
#78. Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
Roger Staubach
#79. All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.
Samuel Logan Brengle
#80. Hence forms of social production that preceded the bourgeois form, are treated by the bourgeoisie in much the same way as the Fathers of the Church treated pre-Christian religions.[46]
Karl Marx
#81. Each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
May Sarton
#82. In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
Albert Einstein
#83. All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.
Herman Melville
#84. A terroir only exists by virtue of one's childhood mythology ... we have invented these words of tradition rooted deep in the land and identity of a region ... because we want to solidify and objectify the magical, bygone years that preceded the horror of becoming an adult.
Muriel Barbery
#85. You should go tho the past, looking not for messages or warnings, but simply to be humbled by the weight of human experience that has preceded the brief flicker of your own few days.
Pat Barker
#86. By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
William Hazlitt
#87. Today's free women, as Gloria Steinem might say, are reshaping the world once again, creating space for themselves and, in turn, for the independent women who will come after them. This is the epoch of the single women, made possible by the single women who preceded it.
Rebecca Traister
#88. THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit. It's a genuine tragedy. Worse yet, it's an unnecessary tragedy. After all, artists who continue and artists who quit share an immense field of common emotional
David Bayles
#89. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it ...
Baruch Spinoza
#90. Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.
Leonard Bernstein
#91. I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
Mike Wallace
#92. Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
Don J. Snyder
#93. All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!
Brian Tracy
#94. Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.
Frederick Lenz
#95. I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
Elisabeth Rohm
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