Quotes About Beginning

When I got traded to the Lakers in '97, Kobe Bryant was just a rookie.

I think sometimes when trades are made the beginning of the season on paper, they look great. It just takes time. Sometimes the process by the media or outside influences or sources want it to be now. Sometimes it doesn't work that way.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

I base all of my relationships on trust, and I try to prove that trust to begin with, and so there isn't any question.

Success in any relationship or endeavor begins with trust.

The truth begins where trust ends.

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

Secrets are always hardest at the beginning. After a while they settle in like the cavities in your teeth, and you only think about them when they hurt.

This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with loss - the loss of virginity, the loss of innocence - but that at some point there stands to be a gain.