quotations about beginning
The first beginnings are generally crude.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
JOHN THE EVANGELIST
1 John 1:1
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Notebooks
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
RALPH ELLISON
Invisible Man
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
In every development, just or false, real or imaginary, collective or individual, it is always the first step, the first act that is the most difficult. That step once taken, the rest follows naturally as a necessary consequence.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
God and the State
Just when you thought it was over
This is just the beginning
RAHZEL
"Just the Beginning (interlude)"
But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN
The Darkest Minds
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
CICERO
De Officiis
It's the beginning of some-something good
It's the beginning of what you never knew you could
It's the beginning of some-some-something good
It's the beginning of ... what could
Oh, you only dreamed would
Oh, what you never dreamed could
Oh, you won't believe me
Oh ...
DONORA
"You Dream"
The hardest thing is where to begin--or, perhaps, why?
ETHEL BARRYMORE
Memories
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
speech at Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Nov. 10, 1942
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
ZIG ZIGLAR
Staying Up
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.
TOM STOPPARD
Arcadia
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
The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
CHINESE PROVERB
There is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridging problem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve such problems every day. They solve them, and having solved them push on.
J. M. COETZEE
Elizabeth Costello
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
And so we turn the page over
To think of starting. This is all there is.
JOHN ASHBERY
"Frontispiece"