Quotes About Starting

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are, in Philadelphia, now.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and what you are, in Philadelphia, now. He that can give to his city any blessing, he who can be a good citizen while he lives here, he that can make better homes, he that can be a blessing whether he works in the shop or sits behind the counter or keeps house, whatever be his life, he who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.

The challenge, it turns out, isn't in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of

The typical factory-centric organization places a premium on not-wrong, and spends no time at all weeding out those who don't start. In the networked economy, the innovation-focused organization has no choice but to obsess about those who don't start. Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

This Is a Manifesto About Starting Starting a project, making a ruckus, taking what feels like a risk. Not just "I'm starting to think about it," or "We're going to meet on this," or even "I filed a patent application. . . ." No, starting. Going beyond the point of no return. Leaping. Committing. Making something happen.

Hoy en día no empezar es muchísimo peor que equivocarse.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do.

Si no acabas, es como si no hubieras empezado; y si no empiezas, no avanzas

He says he is starting a school here, and not just any school, but "the best of the best." He tells Signora Divino, his neighbor, "We will bring all the children from all over the world and we will live in harmony!" Is he kidding?

The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.

We can always begin again. No matter what happens, no matter how long its been, no matter how far from our aspirations we may have strayed, we can always always begin again.

Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to be overcome so that one day we can come to the real meditation.

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

Nadie puede volver a empezar, por lo menos que yo sepa. Todos decimos que queremos encontrar una manera de empezar la vida de nuevo, pero las cosas no son así.

Vision is the starting point of victory.

I am where I am and it's the perfect place to start. I have what I have and it's more than enough. I'm creating what I'm creating by what I think, say and do. I'm going where I'm going, and a thousand angels are with me too.

A note on starting with aspirations versus starting with outcomes: You can start with either. However, I like aspirations as a starting point because they are more flexible and less intimidating than specific outcomes.)