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Quotes by Dick Raymond

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

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Before Quotes and Sayings

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous

I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll

Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill

Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho

Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank

In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau

As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead

Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte

Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully

A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now.
When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies.
We are seeing what is before us.
- John Bradshaw

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau

When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

I can do no other than be reverent
before everything that is called life.
I can do no other than to have compassion
for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer

Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today, try something you have never tried before.
Perhaps just a food that is new to you -
perhaps a whole new way of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung

There is one consolation in being sick;
and that is the possibility that you may recover
to a better state than you were ever in before.
- Henry David Thoreau

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky.
Behind me and before me is God, and I have no fears.
- Helen Keller

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu

Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy

I've always had a love for poetry,
and when I got signed to a record label I thought,
"How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry."
- Jewel

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter

Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Thomas Jefferson

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it?
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized
by a sense of Universal responsibility,
not only nation to nation and human to human,
but also human to other forms of life.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks

It stands to the everlasting credit of science
that by acting on the human mind
it has overcome man's insecurity
before himself and before nature.
- Albert Einstein

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar,
but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
- Abraham Lincoln

Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead

Before printing was discovered,
a century was equal to a thousand years.
- Henry David Thoreau

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