Beginning Quotes

“It is only the first step that is difficult.”

“No-one can say what a new-sown seed will produce, but it may be a splendid flower or a sturdy tree.”

“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

“The initial mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveller reach his starting point in the first place?”

“He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?”

“Big things have small beginnings, sir.”

“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.”

“From the egg to the apples.”

“The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.”

“One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.”

“I was a bricklayer and I was a hod carrier. I'd been on the dole for a while, too.”

“The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.”

“The fastest way to get where you want to go is to start now.”

“The first blush of anything is the best.”

“Starting from zero got nothing to lose. Maybe we'll make something. Me, myself, I got nothing to prove.”

“Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they slip in under the door, they wrap around you when you're not looking.”

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.”

“Light is the first of things.”

“Change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon.”