Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Beginnings

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope.
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French Painter, Sculptor, Lithographer

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
Annie Dillard (b.1945) Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Naturalist, Mystic

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist

It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round.
Colette (1873–1954) French Novelist, Performer

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) American Novelist

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest (1905–75) American Politician

Meet the first beginnings; look to the budding mischief before it has time to ripen to maturity.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
Kate Chopin (1850–1904) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer

All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene F. Ware

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
Rachel Carson (1907–64) American Naturalist, Science Writer

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
John Heywood

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings.
Not all things are blest, but the
seeds of all things are blest.
The blessing is in the seed.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–80) American Poet, Writer

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
Charles Darwin (1809–82) English Naturalist

Things are always at their best in their beginning.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese (1908–50) Italian Novelist, Poet, Critic, Translator

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese (1908–50) Italian Novelist, Poet, Critic, Translator

Wise men are instructed in reason men of less understanding by experience; The most unknowing learn by necessity. Wise men do in the beginning what fools in the end.
Unknown

In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-born British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic

No good ending can be expected in the absence of the right beginning. It is too late.
I Ching Ancient Chinese Divination Text

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression more readily taken.
Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator

Making the beginning is one third of the work.
Irish Proverb

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-born British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
American Indian Proverb

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.
Polybius (c.200–c.118 BCE) Greek Historian

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian Poet

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic

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