BEGINNING QUOTES III

quotations about beginning


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Wouldn't it be nice if life took a cue from horse racing and a gun went off when it was time for us to get moving? Life rarely sends us a signal as clear as a starter's pistol. It's up to us to recognize when it's time to just start.

STUART R. LEVINE
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Cut to the Chase: and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time


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Things are achieved when they are well begun.
The perfect archer calls the deer his own
While yet the shaft is whistling.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy


It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.

TOM STOPPARD

Arcadia


And so we turn the page over
To think of starting. This is all there is.

JOHN ASHBERY

"Frontispiece"


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


That which has a beginning will surely have an end.

JOSEPH SMITH

An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton


The beginning is the most important part of the work.

PLATO

The Republic


Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"Elegiac Verse"


The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura


You are full of unshaped dreams
You are laden with beginnings

LOLA RIDGE

"Wind in the Alleys"


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


Every moment is a fresh beginning.

T. S. ELIOT

The Cocktail Party


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


Maybe it was a storybook beginning.

DANIEL NAYERI

Another Faust


A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

EURIPIDES

Aeolus [fragment]


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


Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

KAMI GARCIA

Beautiful Darkness


The beginning is the end
Keeps coming round again

HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS

"The Loop Closes"