quotations about beginning
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Notebooks
But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN
The Darkest Minds
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
RALPH ELLISON
Invisible Man
In every development, just or false, real or imaginary, collective or individual, it is always the first step, the first act that is the most difficult. That step once taken, the rest follows naturally as a necessary consequence.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
God and the State
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
JOHN THE EVANGELIST
1 John 1:1
The first beginnings are generally crude.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Just when you thought it was over
This is just the beginning
RAHZEL
"Just the Beginning (interlude)"
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
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.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Hind Swaraj
It's the beginning of some-something good
It's the beginning of what you never knew you could
It's the beginning of some-some-something good
It's the beginning of ... what could
Oh, you only dreamed would
Oh, what you never dreamed could
Oh, you won't believe me
Oh ...
DONORA
"You Dream"
I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
Ends and beginnings--there are no such things.
There are only middles.
ROBERT FROST
"In the Home Stretch"
The hardest thing is where to begin--or, perhaps, why?
ETHEL BARRYMORE
Memories
The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
CHINESE PROVERB
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
CICERO
De Officiis
Now 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
speech at Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Nov. 10, 1942
Each day is a new beginning.
MICHAEL DUFF NEWTON
Destiny of Souls
And so we turn the page over
To think of starting. This is all there is.
JOHN ASHBERY
"Frontispiece"
We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key--could we but find it--to all we later become.
JAMES BALDWIN
Notes of a Native Son