Quotes About Beginning

The first step is the hardest.

Every beginning is hard.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.

The beginning is half of every action.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

We will not know unless we begin.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Is but the threshold of eternity.

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

Almost all of our relationships begin, and most of them continue, as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon - my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles - you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.

When I was 13, my mom checked me into a modeling agency. Then, out of nowhere, they asked me to audition for a TV show, which I did, and I got going from there.