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

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou Holtz

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

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

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

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

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

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

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
Erma Bombeck

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
Erma Bombeck

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

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

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