Begin Quotes

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Most of those who keep on making fresh starts make rotten progress.

Where does the world come from? She hadn’t the faintest idea. Sophie knew that the world was only a small planet in space. But where did space come from? It was possible that space had always existed, in which case she would not also need to figure out where it came from. But could anything […]

“Begin at the beginning,”, the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Beginnings are always messy.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one […]

An ill beginning hath an ill ending.

To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise; begin!.