It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Notebooks
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
That which has a beginning will surely have an end.
JOSEPH SMITH, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES, Aeolus [fragment]
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in ... there is only the beauty of the start!
JHONEN VASQUEZ, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
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
Things are always at their best in their beginning.
PASCAL, Provincial Letters
In my beginning is my end.
T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker," Four Quartets
- And so we turn the page over
- To think of starting. This is all there is.
JOHN ASHBERY, "Frontispiece"
Each day is a new beginning.
MICHAEL DUFF NEWTON, Destiny of Souls
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
- There are only middles.
ROBERT FROST, "In the Home Stretch"
The birth of all things is weak and tender; and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
