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

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Mitch Hedberg

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
Robert H. Schuller

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Mae West

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West

I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.
Mae West

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

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
Mike Ditka

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy