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 | The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 12 likes |
 | 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, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 9 likes |
 | Every moment is a fresh beginning. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 8 likes |
| New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 7 likes |
 | The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 7 likes |
 | You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 6 likes |
 | Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 6 likes |
 | There's an old saying, “Life begins at forty.” That’s silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 6 likes |
 | The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 6 likes |
 | He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! 5 likes |
 | Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 5 likes |
 | Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 5 likes |
 | In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 5 likes |
 | When a journey begins badly, it seldom ends well. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 5 likes |
 | Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. — Quintilian, 35-96 AD, Roman rhetorician 5 likes |
| 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, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 4 likes |
 | We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Every artist was first an amateur. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | All beginnings are involuntary. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 3 likes |
 | The end is in the beginning and yet you go on. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 3 likes |
| Home is where one starts from. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
| The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 3 likes |
| I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it all started with a mouse. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
 | I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere. — Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer 3 likes |
 | Better never begin than never make an end. — George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet 3 likes |
 | Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 3 likes |
 | There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. — Alphonse de Lamartin, 1790-1869, French poet 3 likes |
 | Living intensely doesn't mean living every day as if it were your last, but as if it were your first. — Paul Carvel, 1964-, Belgian author of maxims 3 likes |
 | In the end, the truth always wins. Unfortunately, we are still at the beginning. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 3 likes |
 | From the end spring new beginnings. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 3 likes |
 | The Creation was the first act of sabotage. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 3 likes |
 | The only joy in the world is to begin. — Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian writer 1 likes |
 | In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. — Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, English writer 1 likes |
 | There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
| Plotinus is both an end and a beginning: an end as regards the Greeks, a beginning as regards Christendom. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
 | It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
 | The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 1 likes |
| Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 1 likes |
| One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 1 likes |
| Every step is a first step if it’s a step in the right direction. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins. — Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher 1 likes |
 | I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 1 likes |
 | You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
 | The bird is struggling out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born must first destroy a world. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | Nothing great has great beginnings. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher 1 likes |
 | A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist 1 likes |
 | With marriage, something ends for men. For women, it's the opposite: something begins. — Christian Bobin, 1951-2022, French writer 1 likes |
 | I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 1 likes |
 | It began as a mistake. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | The beginnings of all things are small. Omnium rerum principia parva sunt. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 45 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Women are like cigars: the first few puffs are the best. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 5 likes |
 | Adam was not only the first man. He was the first cuckold. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The beginning is half of everything. Αρχή ήμισυ παντός. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 25 likes |
 | In the beginning there was chaos. Ή τοι μεν πρώτιστα Χάος γένετο. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Theogony -116 18 likes |
 | A huge tree can tower from a tiny seed. Σμικρού γένοιτ’ αν σπέρματος μέγας πυθμήν. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Libation bearers 17 likes |
 | A bad beginning makes a bad ending. Κακής απ’ αρχής γίγνεται τέλος κακόν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Aeolus 12 likes |
 | From one trouble, countless others follow. Ενός κακού μύρια έπονται. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet 4 likes |
 | In a circle, each point is simultaneously both a beginning and an end. Ξυνόν γαρ αρχή και πέρας επί κύκλου περιφερείας. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
Proverbs
 | There’s a first time for everything. 6 likes |
