Beginning Quotes and Sayings - Page 3



Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Anonymous

Beginnings are always messy.
John Galsworthy

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill

After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Mark Twain

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
Charles Baudelaire

Beginning is easy – continuing hard.
Japanese Proverb

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
Lyn Yutang

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Horace

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine

There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.
Anonymous

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

In the beginning there was nothing and God said ‘Let there be light’, and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.
Dave Thomas

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
Alexander Clark

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
John Dryden

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
Anonymous

Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
Anonymous

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran

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

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end but somewhere in the middle we’ve become the best of friends.
Anonymous

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Rohn

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Proverb

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

She looked at him, as one who awakes:
The past was a sleep, and her life began.
Robert Browning

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
James Matthew Barrie

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