Begin Quotes

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.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

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

Beginnings are always messy.

An ill beginning hath an ill ending.

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 […]

Still ending, and beginning still.

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

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.