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Quotes About Beginning

What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Your beginning, he said to me, is the rule of what will be required of you: seek to behave so as to do more afterwards, but watch out never to do less.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
~ Jean-Jaques Rousseau
From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.
~ Jean-Jaques Rousseau
The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
~ Kim Stanley
I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.
~ Mark Ruffalo
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.
~ Paulo Coelho
The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.
~ Plato
But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.
~ Stephen Hawking
Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.
~ Simon Sinek
God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.
~ Adolf Hitler
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.
~ Freeman Dyson
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
~ David McCullough
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
~ Aaron Paul
In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.
~ Ally Condie
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg