The beginning of health is sleep.
—Irish Proverb
Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
A bad beginning may make a good ending.
—German Proverb
Every beginning is hard.
—Unknown
Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
—Chinese Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
—Chinese Proverb
A good beginning ensures a good ending.
—Latin Proverb
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
—George Orwell (1903–50) English Novelist, Journalist
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
—William Dean Howells (1837–1920) American Novelist, Critic
We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.
—Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author
Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
The last thing one knows-is what to put first.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
Things are always at their best in their beginning.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
The beginning is the half of every action.
—Common Proverb
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
—Yoshida Kenko (1283–1352) Japanese Poet, Essayist
Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something.
—Unknown
A good beginning makes a good ending.
—English Proverb
Whatever you’re ready for is ready for you.
—Mark Victor Hansen (b.1948) American Public Speaker, Motivational Speaker, Writer
Such a beginning, such an end.
—German Proverb
All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil.
—Dutch Proverb
The beginning is half of the whole.
—Latin Proverb
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.
—Unknown
Who would make money must begin by spending it.
—Italian Proverb
A tree does not grow from the sky.
—Bosnian Proverb
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
—Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Polymath, Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Architect