quotations about beginning
The hardest thing is where to begin--or, perhaps, why?
ETHEL BARRYMORE
Memories
The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
CHINESE PROVERB
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
That which has a beginning will surely have an end.
JOSEPH SMITH
An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton
If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Think Big
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
EZRA POUND
"How I Began"
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES
Aeolus [fragment]
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"
In my beginning is my end.
T.S. ELIOT
"East Coker," Four Quartets
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 first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
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
Each day is a new beginning.
MICHAEL DUFF NEWTON
Destiny of Souls
The beginning is the end
Keeps coming round again
HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS
"The Loop Closes"
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
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATO
The Republic
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
A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be.
ARISTOTLE
Poetics
You are full of unshaped dreams
You are laden with beginnings
LOLA RIDGE
"Wind in the Alleys"
Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Elegiac Verse"