quotations about beginning
And so we turn the page over
To think of starting. This is all there is.
JOHN ASHBERY
"Frontispiece"
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
Cut to the Chase: and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time
Ends and beginnings--there are no such things.
There are only middles.
ROBERT FROST
"In the Home Stretch"
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATO
The Republic
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
KAMI GARCIA
Beautiful Darkness
Each day is a new beginning.
MICHAEL DUFF NEWTON
Destiny of Souls
That which has a beginning will surely have an end.
JOSEPH SMITH
An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
T. S. ELIOT
The Cocktail Party
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"
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES
Aeolus [fragment]
The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Think Big
There is an old saying "well begun is half done"--'tis a bad one. I would use instead--Not begun at all 'til half done.
JOHN KEATS
letter to Benjamin Robert Haydon, May 10-11, 1817
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
In my beginning is my end.
T.S. ELIOT
"East Coker," Four Quartets
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
The beginning is the end
Keeps coming round again
HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS
"The Loop Closes"
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
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