#Beginning Quotes

“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings”

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

“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.”

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

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?”

“The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.”

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

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“The beginning is half of the whole.”

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

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

“A work well begun is half-ended.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The secret of making progress is to get started.”

“There is no beginning too small.”

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

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

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

“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.”

“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.”

“Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.”

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

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

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

“Everything starts with a story.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Everyone who got where he is started where he was.”