Great Beginnings Quotes:

All glory comes from daring to begin.

- Eugene Fitch Ware

source: Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

topic: Courage, Glory, Daring, Great Beginnings, New Beginning Life

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

- Francis of Assisi

source: President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Take Nothing For Granted, Inspirational Achievement

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

- Louis L'Amour

topic: Inspirational, Change, Time, Inspirational New Beginning, Endings Being New Beginnings

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Art, Writing, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends, Inspirational New Beginning

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

topic: Death, Dance, Recovery, Beginnings And Ends, Beginning Of Life

The end is where we start from.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Ends, Beginnings And Ends, Beginning Of Life, Inspirational New Beginning, Starting A New Beginning

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

- James Dobson

source: James Dobson (2000). “Stories of Heart and Home”, p.100, Harper Collins

topic: Wisdom, Persistence, Important, Great Beginnings

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Self Esteem, Men, Majority, Endings Being New Beginnings, Bundles

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Years, Indian Happy New Year, Prosperous

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

- Albert Camus

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, New Year, Street Corners, Sisyphus

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Inspirational New Beginning, Starting A New Beginning

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

- Robert Frost

source: Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

topic: Beginnings And Ends, Beginning Middle And End, Goodbye My Love, Great Beginnings

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Letting Go, New Beginnings, Yesterday, Starting A New Beginning, Endings Being New Beginnings

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Happiness, New Year, Past, Indian Happy New Year, Inspirational New Beginning

Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.

- Joan D. Chittister

topic: Encouragement, Foundation, Possibility, Great Beginnings

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Learning, Creativity, Simple, Great Beginnings

The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg inhabits our first bewilderments, the terrors and the tenderness that shape our lives. To read her is to fall out of the daily into a fresh elation.

- Noy Holland

topic: Fall, Seductive, Stories, Great Beginnings

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

topic: Sweet, Memories, Home, Middlemarch, Sweet Memories

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

- Maud Adams

topic: Ambition, Mind, Needs, Great Beginnings