quotations about beginning
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Notebooks
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
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
RALPH ELLISON
Invisible Man
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
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
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
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"
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
Just when you thought it was over
This is just the beginning
RAHZEL
"Just the Beginning (interlude)"
The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
CHINESE PROVERB
The hardest thing is where to begin--or, perhaps, why?
ETHEL BARRYMORE
Memories
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
CICERO
De Officiis
Each day is a new beginning.
MICHAEL DUFF NEWTON
Destiny of Souls
That which has a beginning will surely have an end.
JOSEPH SMITH
An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
ZIG ZIGLAR
Staying Up
Ends and beginnings--there are no such things.
There are only middles.
ROBERT FROST
"In the Home Stretch"
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.
TOM STOPPARD
Arcadia