To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
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
There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
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
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
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
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
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
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
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.
- Winston Churchill
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
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
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
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
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
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar,
but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Before the throne of the Almighty,
man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.
For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
From far beyond this life,
I hear the call.
From place beyond all place,
I feel the call.
From time before all time,
I know the call.
From one before all ones,
I am the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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