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Quotes About Beginnings

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss...
~ Rudyard Kipling
Florida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world's detritus.
~ Russell Banks
People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch. A
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Methwold's hair, parted in the middle has a lot to do with my beginnings. It was one of those hairlines along which history and sexuality moved.
~ Salman Rushdie
but no, ends must not be permitted to precede beginnings and middles, even if recent scientific experiments have shown us that within certain types of closed systems, under intense pressure, time can be persuaded to run backwards, so that effects precede their causes.
~ Salman Rushdie
Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Things ended, and then they began again, only they would begin without Isabelle.
~ Alice Hoffman
You know me now. I'm only good at beginnings.
~ Allen Ginsberg
los grandes viajes empiezan con pasos pequeños.
~ Joe Abercrombie
How you begin each day is one of the most important things in life. Your mood, your purpose, even your success in life is dependent on it. When you get up hopeful, expecting good things, and letting go of things in the past – that's when you're in a flow with God.
~ Joel Osteen
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.
~ Laurie Lee
Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.
~ Joel Osteen
Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.
~ Marianne Williamson
Everybody on YouTube starts with zero subscribers. You think of everyone you look up to or have watched for years or whatever, they may seem like this is their life now, but it wasn't always that.
~ Tyler Oakley
My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.
~ Pierre Berton
Big streams from little fountains flow. Great oaks from little acorns grow;
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
The friendship between Margaret and Mrs. Wilcox, which was to develop so quickly and with such strange results, may perhaps have had its beginnings at Speyer, in the spring.
~ E.M. Forster
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
~ Earl Monroe
I wonder if it won't be the same with the children as it has been with us. No matter how long each one of them lives, won't their lives feel to them unfinished like ours, only just beginning? I wonder how far they will go. And then their children will grow up and it will be the same with them. Unfinished lives. Oh, dearie, what children all of us are.
~ Earnest Poole
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.
~ Edith Hamilton
Parvis e glandibus quercus [Tall oaks from little acorns grow].
~ Anonymous: Latin
These were the beginnings of a new existence; Winkler could feel it gestating.
~ Anthony Doerr
we have learned from them the beginnings of life and have gained the power not only to live happily but also to die with a better hope.
~ Anthony Everitt
Her family was of obscure origin;
~ Anthony Everitt