B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.”
“Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”
“Before death, the leaves display magnificent beauty, and then fall to the earth to serve a greater purpose.”
“Before debating anything with me, tell me the language of fish?”
“Before deciding on a decision, determine how well you are willing to live with it.”
“Before deciding to do something, you should discover your true values, and then, you should search for opportunities to apply those values practically.”
“Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.”
“Before defining what you want, know who you are.”
Source: Modus Vivendi - Your Life Your Way: 7 Days to Self Transformation
“Before delving into a problem, many people often want to draw hasty conclusions and take a stand before identifying the comprehensive circumstances and backgrounds. Making decisions gives them a good feeling and reduces their stress while unwillingly realizing they are in the grip of laziness or boredom. ("Blame storming")”
“Before developing faith I lived as an alien in an alien universe that was completely hostile and quite cruel. After receiving faith that very same Universe became a most welcoming and comfortable habitat for me, filled with growth and love, this has finally become my home.”
“Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?”
“Before Die make yourself As lesson for people”
“Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.”
“Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“Before discussing the 'relinking' of people and forests through community forestry, it is important to understand where the 'delinking' paradigm, superimposed onto Tanzania and elsewhere during colonial times originated. The separation of people and nature has deep-rooted conceptual origins, for example early Judeo-Christian texts explicitly framed humans as exceptional and separate from nature as opposed to many animist religions that placed humans within nature. The conceptual separation is particularly strong in Europe, as reflected in the origins of certain words, with the Latin word foestis originating from a meaning 'outside', as in a wild place outside human control.
Such 'wild places' later became the hunting reserves of elites in Europe in the form of exclusionary Royal Forests, 'commoners' were kept out. A few centuries later, during the period of Enlightenment and into industrialisation and urbanisation, livelihoods in countries like Britain are further delinked from nature, The division between [eople and nature has become so heavily engrained in modern industrialised society that 'wilderness' has attained a romantic idealisation.”
Source: Reforesting Scotland 71, Spring/Summer 2025
“Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.”
“Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, This is where I wanna be.”
“Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just stand there and talk. But there is a difference between people who can do it well and people who can't.”
“Before Donald Trump, I was not worried. To be honest with you, when I came to the United States, I felt freedom right away. But after Trump, I became worried not only for immigrants, not only for Muslims, not only for the US. Now I'm worried for the whole world.”
“Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.”
“Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that sleep would come, and their terrors were so tame and domestic: the job, the money, what the teacher will think if I can't get Jennie nicer clothes, does my wife still love me, who are my friends. They were pallid compared to the fears every child lies cheek and jowl with in his dark bed, with no one to confess to in hope of perfect understanding but another child. There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.”
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“Before, during and after the battlefield, praying for victory is always key.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Before dying, my last wish will be to see MS Dhoni's World Cup
Winning Six.”
“Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.”
“Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect, even though he is trying to take something from me.”
“Before each series I spent a lot of time visualizing new ways to neutralize our next opponent’s attack.”
Source: Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
“Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.”
“Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.”
“Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.”
“Before Elvis there was nothing.”
“Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.”
“Before embarking on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for the fool and one for all those pesky relatives.”
– Dread Emperor Vindictive the First”
“Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. After that you should utilize all necessary material means to achieve your goal.”
“Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.”
Source: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness
“Before enlightenment of the heart and cleansing of the Self, God's love is impossible to obtain.”
Source: The Religion of God (Divine Love): Untold Mysteries and Secrets of God
“Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.”
“Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”
“Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.”
“Before even considering an exercise and nutrition program, I recommend that the person put on some swim trunks and have somebody take a photo of them. Then take a good look and ask yourself: Is this who I really am? If you don't see yourself as that, you have the opportunity to change it. But you need to change your mindset.”
“Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.”
“Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.”
“Before, even two weeks ago, if Henry had said these things to me, my mouth would've gone dry, my stomach would've clenched, and I would've broken out in a cold sweat. But now... I understand. I understand him. He's not trying to control me or change me or anglerfish me. He's just... telling me he knows me.”
Source: Switched
“Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?”
Source: Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success
“Before every game he played Willie Ofahengaue would pray. But it to us it was never clear whether he prayed for himself or for the safety of the opposition!”
“Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.”
“Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.”
“Before every important decision, spend a long time with yourself; the wisdom of silence will help you to find the right path!”
“Before every performance I feel nervous.”