Beginning Quotes

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning andget under way.

There is no beginning too small.

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Everything starts with a story.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

Everyone who got where he is started where he was.

A work well begun is half-ended.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.

However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

The beginning is half of the whole.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.

People who won’t take step number one never take step number two.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

If you don't start somewhere, you're gonna go nowhere.

Marley was dead: to begin with.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.