Quotes About Commencement

Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

It's not where you start, but whether you start.

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

The firstling of the infant year.

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

It's no big deal, starting a game.

Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started.

Life was about to begin, so Arsenal had to go.

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

All beginnings are intrinsically happy.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

The beginnings of all things are small.

I've only just begun.

Una cosa sola (tra le molte) mi pare insopportabile all'artista: non sentirsi più all'inizio.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

The beginning is the half of every action.

El fin no es más que el principio." Hasta

This whole book is composed of first pages.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Every journey begins with one step.

I'd been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaking live on television is one thing... speaking to 30,000 people in a football stadium is another.

Like everyone else, when you start out you must begin from a position of being completely unknown. No option.

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

When you start the game with an ace, it's always better.