Quotes About Beginnings

Yesterday's ending launched today's success, and today will have to end if tomorrow's changes are to take place.

Yet beginnings are also scary, for they require a new commitment.

Beginnings establish once and for all that an ending was real.

Purposes are critical to beginnings, but they are rather abstract. They are ideas, and most people are not ready to throw themselves into a difficult and risky undertaking simply on the basis of an idea.1 They need something they can see, at least in their imaginations. They need a picture of how the outcome will look, and they need to be able to imagine how it will feel to be a participant in it.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Revelation, which is often associated with the end of things, also speaks of new beginnings—a new name (2:17); a new Jerusalem (3:12); a new heaven and a new earth (21:1); and all things new (21:5). It reads like a description of New Year's Eve. Ring out the old; ring in the new!

Everything you know and dream of is nothing, not even a speck of what is. The life of even the tiniest ant is as infinitely complex as a man's and the life of a man is like a god's. And even this vast whole is enclosed in my endlessness like the faintest glimmer of the first thought on the dawn of the first day of creation. Everything is still possible. You have not yet begun to live.

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.

It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.

It'd be cool if God gave everyone a Do Over Day and you could yell "Do Over!" and the day would start new.

My husband, children, and my family are my biggest supporters. I just pray to God to keep my family and I aligned at all times, and I just remember where it all got started before show business.

Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.

Great things have small beginnings.

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

The history of theatre is the history of first nights.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.