quotations about beginning
That which has a beginning will surely have an end.
JOSEPH SMITH
An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton
Ends and beginnings--there are no such things.
There are only middles.
ROBERT FROST
"In the Home Stretch"
And so we turn the page over
To think of starting. This is all there is.
JOHN ASHBERY
"Frontispiece"
Wouldn't it be nice if life took a cue from horse racing and a gun went off when it was time for us to get moving? Life rarely sends us a signal as clear as a starter's pistol. It's up to us to recognize when it's time to just start.
STUART R. LEVINE
Cut to the Chase: and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATO
The Republic
In my beginning is my end.
T.S. ELIOT
"East Coker," Four Quartets
Things are achieved when they are well begun.
The perfect archer calls the deer his own
While yet the shaft is whistling.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
T. S. ELIOT
The Cocktail Party
Songbird, rebirth, unearth creature / Submerge from hurt, pain, broken pieces / Emergency, heartbeat increases / Rise up lotus, rise, this is the beginning.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
"Lotus Intro"
The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
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
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H.G. WELLS
The Discovery of the Future
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Elegiac Verse"
Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
SARAH DESSEN
What Happened to Goodbye
There is an old saying "well begun is half done"--'tis a bad one. I would use instead--Not begun at all 'til half done.
JOHN KEATS
letter to Benjamin Robert Haydon, May 10-11, 1817
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES
Aeolus [fragment]
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
KAMI GARCIA
Beautiful Darkness
You are full of unshaped dreams
You are laden with beginnings
LOLA RIDGE
"Wind in the Alleys"
I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
DANIEL DEFOE
Robinson Crusoe