Think Before You Speak Quotes

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Think twice before you speak,
because your words and influence will plant the seed
of either success or failure in the mind of another.
- Napoleon Hill

Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness.
Think before you speak. Know your subject.
- Cass Gilbert

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung

Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
- Joseph Lelyveld

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
- Elisabeth Rohm

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
- Bryan Ferry

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.
- Ashley Judd

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.
- Chuck Norris

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
- Jessica Lange

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
- Earl Hines

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
- Cate Blanchett

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
- Vince Lombardi

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.
- Kurt Loder

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
- Claudette Colbert

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.
- Donald Johanson

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.
- Jim Cramer

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
- Jerry Pournelle

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
- Steve Ballmer

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
- Patton Oswalt

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.
- Trey Parker

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
- Ann Patchett

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
- Gloria Steinem

I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.
- Roy Wood

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.
- Glenn Close

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.
- Roger Ebert

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
- Al Green

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
- Warren Christopher

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
- Jane Fonda

So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.
- Aleksander Kwasniewski

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
- David R. Brower

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.
- Judy Biggert

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
- Serj Tankian

I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.
- Jeffrey Skilling

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.
- Roy Wood

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
- Van Morrison

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
- William Weld

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.
- Michael Emerson

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.
- Coleman Hawkins

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
- Ron Silver

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
- T-Bone Burnett

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?
- Roone Arledge

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.
- Ahmed Yassin

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
- George Bernard Shaw

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
- Andrew Carnegie

I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.
- Jeremy London

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
- Carlos Fuentes

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!
- Martha Quinn

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
- Lewis B. Hershey

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
- John Sterling

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.
- Trent Dilfer

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.
- Frank Shorter

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
- Scott Reed

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
- Richard Brautigan

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
- James Stephens

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.
- Brit Hume

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
- James Cook

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