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Quotes About Beginning

We're plotting reformation of life as we know it," I replied, somewhat flippantly. "Oh, is that all?" she teased. "Why not start with breakfast?
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
~ Joe DiMaggio
If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.
~ Joe Girard
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?
~ Joe Haldeman
No. You can't understand. Because you're reading the last chapter of something without having read the first chapter. You're a little guy, Bode. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when they're usually coming in at the end.
~ Joe Hill
No you can't understand because you are reading the last chapter of something with out having read the first chapters. Young people always think they are coming into a story at the beginning when they are usually coming in at the end.
~ Joe Hill
Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end.
~ Joe Hill
It was as if the day's whole motion had merely described a great circle that was always, inevitably, going to lead him back to where he had started.
~ Joe Hill
One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.
~ Joe Hill
The sky was the exact filthy gray of a Polaroid just beginning to develop.
~ Joe Hill
KINDNESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WISDOM; RECOGNITION OF THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. I have never found this to be the case. I've gotten this far being wise without being kind, and my feeling is: If it ain't broke don't fix it.
~ Joe Queenan
God knows the end from the beginning. If you will stay in faith, your story, your life, will end in victory.
~ Joel Osteen
All lost, because one of the galaxy's many life forms saw all the others as resources to be consumed. It was an attitude all life began with. Some grew out of it.
~ Joel Shepherd
A bölcsesség kezdete az önismeret.
~ Johan Huizinga
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
~ Johann von Goethe
Todo comienzo tiene su encanto.
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What matters our creative endless toil, When at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil? 'It is by-gone' - How shall the riddle run? As good as if things never had begun, Yet circle back, existence to possess: I'd rather have eternal Emptiness.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Da fing mein Leben an, als ich dich liebte.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe