Beginnings Quotations
- "Almost everything comes from nothing."
--Henry F. Amiel - "A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end."
-- Aristotle - "The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole."
-- Aristotle - "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
-- Carl Bard - "The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason."
--Hal Borland - "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
--Albert Camus - "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning."
-- John Henry Cardinal - "You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip."
--Jonathan Carroll - "When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are."
--Edgar Cayce - "Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again; No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends; No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends."
--Tom Chapin - "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
--Winston Churchill - "The beginnings of all things are small."
-- Cicero - "In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made."
-- Cicero - "The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby."
--Lucille Clifton - " It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round."
--Colette - "First things first, second things never."
-- Shirley Conran - "The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
--Robyn Davidson - "The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult."
--Marquise du Deffand - "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
--Demosthenes - "I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing."
--Annie Dillard - "There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory."
--Sir Francis Drake - "Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."
--Meister Eckhart - "With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere."
-- Peter Robert Fleming - "He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end."
--Harry Emerson Fosdick - "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."
--John Galsworthy - "Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Caring ideas are the chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."
--Natalie Goldberg - "The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream."
--Marilyn Harris - "A hard beginning maketh a good ending."
--John Heywood - "First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."
-- Napoleon Hill - "He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."
--Horace - "The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette."
--Henry S. Hoskins - "It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome."
-- William James - "All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, not in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in his inaugural address - "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
--Martin Luther King Jr. - "Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself."
--Olga Korbut - "Know ye not, each thing we prize does come from small beginnings rise?"
--Mary Ann Lamb - "I'm in a very enviable position, being able to work like this forty-five years later. It's always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, they're going to carry me off a stage."
--Angela Lansbury - "There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
-- Louis L'Amour - "Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."
--James Russell Lowell - "Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
-- Og Mandino - "So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."
--Florence Nightingale - "Things are always at their best in their beginning."
--Blaise Pascal - "The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
-- Blaise Pascal - "The only joy in the world is to begin."
-- Cesare Pavese - "We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."
--Edith Lovejoy Pierce - "The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression more readily taken."
--Plato (The Republic) - "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."
--Ivy Baker Priest - "No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning."
-- Proverb - "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
--Chinese proverb - "To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom."
-- German Proverb - "Making the beginning is one third of the work."
-- Irish Proverb - "Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."
--Publilius Syrus - "It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
--Rainer Maria Rilke - "Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."
-- Jim Rohn - "Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed."
--Murial Rukeyser - "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
--Joe Sabah - "Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end."
--Semisonic - "Whatever begins, also ends."
-- Seneca - "To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end."
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream - "You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."
-- Barabra Sher - "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
--St. Francis of Assisi - "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson - "Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson - "Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be."
--Marsha Petrie Sue - "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
--Lao-Tsu - "All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small."
--Lao-Tsu - "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
-- Lao-Tsu - "Every minute starts an hour."
-- Unknown - "All glory comes from daring to begin."
--Eugene F. Ware - "The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings."
--Dave Weinbaum - "I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
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