One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

I think I'm incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

Like, I haven't even tried a cherry before, because I'm such a picky eater, and I behave like a 9-year-old.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

Every relapse is dangerous, but often it takes multiple relapses before someone finally gets sober for good.

I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

If you want something you've never had before, you gotta be willing to do something you've never done before.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

I was on 'The Shield' for a year before 'Crash' came out, and it was like doing an independent film every week.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

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