It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Berenice Abbott

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
James Allen

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
Josef Albers

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken

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

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem

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

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

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Denis Waitley

Before beginning, plan carefully.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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