No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx

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

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift

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

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John C. Maxwell

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire

Before all else, be armed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale

With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius Caesar

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot