B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Before you abandon your partner, ask yourself what is missing and see if you can reach down inside your own heart and bring it forth. Faith. Light. Unconditional Love. It is there, hiding perhaps underneath a dark historic shroud of anger, disappointment, shame or resentment. You will find the hidden treasure if you want to. It is all inside of you.”
“Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.”
“Before you accept a job research the company, salary, benefits and weigh that with the satisfaction of what you will be doing in that particular location compared to a position where you could stand to grow and learn the most.”
“Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.”
“Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.”
“Before you act or speak, ask yourself: "Am I bringing peace, progress or perspective to the situation / conversation?" and ideally you should be bringing all three.”
“Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.”
“Before you approach me, know that I am God's anointed, and you will leave with either a blessing or a curse. My God does not play about me.”
“Before you are a champion you are an amateur.
Before you are a general you are a warrior.
Before you are a politician you are a constituent.
Before you are a president you are a citizen.
Before you are a pastor you are a parishioner.
Before you are a pope you are a priest.
Before you are a teacher you are a student.
Before you are a guru you are a disciple.
Before you are an inventor you are a scientist.
Before you are a judge you are a lawyer.
Before you are a maestro you are an apprentice.
Before you are a coach you are an athlete.
Before you are a genius you are a talent.
A humble amateur is better than a proud champion.
A humble warrior is better than a proud general.
A humble constituent is better than a proud politician.
A humble citizen is better than a proud president.
A humble parishioner is better than a proud pastor.
A humble priest is better than a proud pope.
A humble student is better than a proud teacher.
A humble disciple is better than a proud guru.
A humble scientist is better than a proud inventor.
A humble lawyer is better than a proud judge.
A humble apprentice is better than a proud expert.
A humble athlete is better than a proud coach.
A humble talent is better than a proud genius.”
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader
“Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.”
“Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.”
Source: HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS
“Before you arrive at any networking event, read the industry trade news beforehand Better still, read the trades on a regular basis, Be prepared to discuss the news or ask a question about what you've read. If you're meeting with a specific person, be sure to have checked their Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs beforehand. This kind of preparation will give you confidence going into a meeting.”
Source: The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate
“Before you ask God to bless you, give Him a reason to.”
“Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.”
Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
“Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.”
“Before you ask the person to vote, do something nice and unexpected that will make that person feel the need to reciprocate the favor.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.”
“Before you attract the person you want in your life, be that person.”
“Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.”
“Before you become GREAT, you have to be GRATEFUL...because you are GREAT right now!”
“Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.”
“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
“Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.”
“Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?”
“Before you begin working your way into the system, it is imperative that you are ready to be judged. You are only new once. ... You are only ready when you can orchestrate the next move after you have the industry's attention.”
Source: Directing Your Directing Career
“Before You Begin Writing Your Book, Ask Yourself A Very Important Question: What Kind of Results Do I Plan To Receive From Writing This Book? If You Say Money, Then Don't Bother Even Writing The Book.”
“Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.”
“Before you begin your journey toward integrity, you need to determine your starting point. In other words, what's your integrity quotient? How much integrity do you have? Do a moral inventory of yourself. Hold yourself accountable going forward for what you say and do. Moving toward a more faithful, fair, and honest life begins with confronting truthfully who you are. You can't hold yourself accountable if you won't see yourself clearly.”
“Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus”
Source: Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss
“Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.”
“Before you call a spade a spade, dig a big hole for yourself.”
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
“Before you came
the world was prose.
Now poetry is born.”
“Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-”
“Before you came,
things were as they should be:
the sky was the dead-end of sight,
the road was just a road, wine merely wine.
Now everything is like my heart,
a color at the edge of blood:
the grey of your absence, the color of poison, of thorns,
the gold when we meet, the season ablaze,
the yellow of autumn, the red of flowers, of flames,
and the black when you cover the earth
with the coal of dead fires.
And the sky, the road, the glass of wine?
The sky is a shirt wet with tears,
the road a vein about to break,
and the glass of wine a mirror in which
the sky, the road, the world keep changing.
Don’t leave now that you’re here—
Stay. So the world may become like itself again:
so the sky may be the sky,
the road a road,
and the glass of wine not a mirror, just a glass of wine.”
Source: 100 Poems by Faiz Ahmed Fiza
“Before you can access a different way of being, one that is not ego-driven, you need to unlock the gateway with self-compassion.”
Source: Mindful NEGOtiation: Becoming More Aware in the Moment, Conquering Your Ego and Getting Everyone What They Really Want
“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it could be correct?'. That's a very different question. One of my prevailing doctrines about Darwinian theory is 'Man, that thing is just a mess. It's like looking into a room full of smoke.' Nothing in the theory is precisely, clearly, carefully defined or delineated. It lacks all of the rigor one expects from mathematical physics, and mathematical physics lacks all the rigor one expects from mathematics. So we're talking about a gradual descent down the level of intelligibility until we reach evolutionary biology.”
“Before you can be a professional, you must first be a beginner.”
Source: Glass Eyes: A Photographers Journey
“Before you can be all deprecating it's helpful to be self-deprecating.”
“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.”
“Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.”
Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
“Before you can beat me (this is the easy part), you have to allow yourself to win.”
“Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my recollection, I became a reader at the age of 10 and have never stopped. Like many authors, I read all sorts of books all the time, and it is amazing how the mind fills up.”
“Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“Before you can brighten the corner where you are, you must first develop dislike for the initial dull corner you once endured. You can’t change what you are comfortable with.”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself.”
“Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...
“Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.”