A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
Chinese Proverb, Lao Tzu
From small beginnings come great things.
Proverb
The distance doesn’t matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.
Marquise du Deffand
The first step is the hardest.
Proverb
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
Well begun is half done.
Aristotle
There is an old saying ‘well begun is half done’ – ’tis a bad one. I would use instead – Not begun at all until half done.
John Keats
Everything must have a beginning.
Proverb
Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Proverb
In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T.S. Eliot
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson
You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland
Tis always morning somewhere in the world.
Richard Henry Horne
If you want to know the end, look at the beginning.
African Proverb
From today and from this place there begins a new epoch in the history of the world.
Goethe
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
A good beginning makes a good end.
English Proverb
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
John Heywood
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
Plato
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Napoleon Hill
The beginning and the end reach out their hands to each other.
Chinese Proverbs
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
Seneca
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Native American Proverb
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
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
Anonymous
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Charles Darwin
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
Anne Sullivan
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin.
Quintilian
Like all things, love has both a beginning and an end.
Thomas Squiers
Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom.
Proverb
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Albert Camus
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne
A beginning is only the start of a journey to another beginning.
Anonymous
All time management begins with planning.
Tom Greening
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
Anonymous
So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.
W. Clement Stone
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.
Sandra Bullock
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Chinese Proverbs
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards.
Alberto Salaza
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
David Weinbaum
The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Latin Proverb
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn
I watch out my window as the planes take off into space. Oh, that I could fly away and start fresh. But I must realize that fresh starts also come in the pretty wrapped gift called ‘tomorrow.
Anonymous
Before beginning, prepare carefully.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
Anonymous
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci
“Begin at the beginning,”, the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Lewis Carroll
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
Oscar Wilde