Precede Quotes
80 quotes by 73 authors
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
— Louisa May Alcott
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
— Samuel Butler
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
— Giacomo Casanova
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Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.”
— Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
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He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions.
— James Freeman Clarke
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.…
— Isaac Newton
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
— William Wordsworth
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If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either…
— Michael Faraday
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Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last…
— Charles Babbage
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Private victories precede public victories.
— Stephen Covey
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
— Stephen Covey
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will…
— Oscar Wilde
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The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science…
— Adolphe Quetelet
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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous…
— Mark Twain
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Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is…
— Ray Bradbury
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Who Wrote These Precede Quotes
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