Beginnings Quotes
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The beginnings of all things are small. (Quote by - Cicero)
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. (Quote by - Democritus)
Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.(Quote by - Isak Dinesen)
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.(Quote by - Helen Rowland)
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. (Quote by - Jacques Benigue Bossuet)
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. (Quote by - Quintilian)
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression more readily taken. (Quote by - Plato)
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.(Quote by - Clark Gable)
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing. (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. (Quote by - Peter Robert Fleming)
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. (Quote by - Edith Lovejoy Pierce)
How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.(Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Things are always at their best in their beginning. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby. (Quote by - Lucille Clifton)
Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. (Quote by - Ovid)
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. (Quote by - Demosthenes)
Almost everything comes from nothing. (Quote by - Henry F. Amiel)
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.(Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. (Quote by - Dave Weinbaum)
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. (Quote by - Hal Borland)
I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it.(Quote by - Renee Zellweger)
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.(Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.(Quote by - Jule Renard)
Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. (Quote by - Marsha Petrie Sue)
The metamorphosis that transforms the lowly worm into a beautiful butterfly reminds us of the loving miracle producing Creator always at work before us, around us and in us. To witness this marvel is to experience our own resurrection, new life, and beginning. (Quote by - J. Lloyd Ewart)
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. (Quote by - Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. (Quote by - Lao-Tzu)
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.(Quote by - Henny Youngman)
No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?(Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. (Quote by - Marquise du Deffand)
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.(Quote by - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. (Quote by - Cicero)
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. (Quote by - Jonathan Carroll)
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. (Quote by - Maria Robinson)
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.(Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. (Quote by - Madame Marie Anne du Deffand)
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. (Quote by - Liz Smith)
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. (Quote by - Horace)
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. (Quote by - Lao-Tsu)
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out. (Quote by - Natalie Goldberg)
Love is. the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.(Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.(Quote by - Mary Wilson Little)
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.(Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. (Quote by - Decimus Magnus Ausonius)
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.(Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.(Quote by - Sam Levenson)
Love is a deep well from which you may drink often, but into which you may fall but once.(Quote by - Ellye Howell Glover)
When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are. (Quote by - Edgar Cayce)
Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end. (Quote by - Seneca)
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
The highest condition takes rise in the lowest. (Quote by - Syrus)
A hard beginning maketh a good ending. (Quote by - John Heywood)
All glory comes from daring to begin. (Quote by - Eugene F. Ware)
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.(Quote by - Anne-Sophie Swetchine)
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (Quote by - St. Francis of Assisi)
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. (Quote by - Caius Cornelius Gallus)
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. (Quote by - Meister Eckhart)
To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Whatever begins, also ends. (Quote by - Seneca)
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. (Quote by - Joe Sabah)
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.(Quote by - Albert Ellis)
Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.(Quote by - Mark Twain)
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.(Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round. (Quote by - Colette)
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.(Quote by - Ursula K. Le Guin)
Making the beginning is one third of the work. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. (Quote by - Sir Francis Drake)
A good beginning makes a good end. (Quote by - English Proverb)
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. (Quote by - Goethe)
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment (Quote by - this day)
Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. (Quote by - Decimus Magnus Ausonius)
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. (Quote by - Robyn Davidson)
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. (Quote by - Ivy Baker Priest)
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.(Quote by - Plato)
To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise. (Quote by - Horace)
What's well begun, is half done. (Quote by - Horace)
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. (Quote by - Murial Rukeyser)
First things first, second things never. (Quote by - Cicero)
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. (Quote by - Henry S. Hoskins)
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.(Quote by - Alice Walker)
No good ending can be expected in the absence of the right beginning. It is too late. (Quote by - I Ching)
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.(Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Know ye not, each thing we prize does come from small beginnings rise? (Quote by - Mary Ann Lamb)
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. (Quote by - John Galsworthy)
It is the beginning of the end. (Quote by - Syrus)
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.(Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)
Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself. (Quote by - Olga Korbut)
Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I'm in a very enviable position, being able to work like this forty-five years later. It's always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, they're going to carry me off a stage. (Quote by - Angela Lansbury)
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.(Quote by - Woody Allen)
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly. (Quote by - Lao Tzu New! as of )
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. (Quote by - Ovid)
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, not in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again; No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends; No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends. (Quote by - Tom Chapin)
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. (Quote by - Florence Nightingale)
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. (Quote by - Carl Bard)
The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream. (Quote by - Marilyn Harris)
