quotations about beginning
Each day is a new beginning.
MICHAEL DUFF NEWTON
Destiny of Souls
And so we turn the page over
To think of starting. This is all there is.
JOHN ASHBERY
"Frontispiece"
That which has a beginning will surely have an end.
JOSEPH SMITH
An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton
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
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
In my beginning is my end.
T.S. ELIOT
"East Coker," Four Quartets
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"
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
T. S. ELIOT
The Cocktail Party
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
Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Elegiac Verse"
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"
The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
KAMI GARCIA
Beautiful Darkness
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES
Aeolus [fragment]
The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in ... there is only the beauty of the start!
JHONEN VASQUEZ
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
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