BEGINNING QUOTES III

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


Each day is a new beginning.

MICHAEL DUFF NEWTON

Destiny of Souls


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

KAMI GARCIA

Beautiful Darkness


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"


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


In my beginning is my end.

T.S. ELIOT

"East Coker," Four Quartets


A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

EURIPIDES

Aeolus [fragment]


Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


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


If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Think Big


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"


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


The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura


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


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