quotations about beginning
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
Ends and beginnings--there are no such things.
There are only middles.
ROBERT FROST
"In the Home Stretch"
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
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
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
T. S. ELIOT
The Cocktail Party
That which has a beginning will surely have an end.
JOSEPH SMITH
An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES
Aeolus [fragment]
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
If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Think Big
In my beginning is my end.
T.S. ELIOT
"East Coker," Four Quartets
The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
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
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
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"
The beginning is the end
Keeps coming round again
HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS
"The Loop Closes"
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