Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
Think before you act; think twice before you speak.
Sometimes I think, I need to think before I speak. And then other times I think, I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.
My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think of yourself. Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy. This is the only practical solution. If you do not want it, then - fight.
My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die.
Imagine that, death was just like being asleep. Would he have time to think before it was all over? And would he have time to think that he had thought it? But wait, how much do you have to think before you have finished thinking?
I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
I think that sometimes people don't think before they speak. And even a small comment can make or break someone's day.
Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.