BEGINNING QUOTES

quotations about beginning

End without infinity is but a new beginning.

DEJAN STOJANOVIC

The Sun Watches the Sun


A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

LAO-TZU

Tao Te Ching


all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes

SAMUEL BECKETT

How It Is


What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.

NIKOLAI BERDYAEV

The Beginning and the End


We ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

SAM TANENHAUS

Literature Unbound


The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. When this sensation is lacking--as when one is in prison, or ill, or stupid, or when living has become a habit--one might as well be dead.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, Nov. 23, 1937


This is the beginning of anything you want.

BOY

"This Is the Beginning", Mutual Friends


In every end, there is also a beginning.

LIBBA BRAY

A Great and Terrible Beauty


Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

LEWIS CARROLL

Alice in Wonderland


End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.

DAVID ODELL

The Dark Crystal


Rise up lotus, rise, this is the beginning.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

"Lotus"


The birth of all things is weak and tender; and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Essays


Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

HORACE

Epistles


The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

The Cave


It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Fellowship of the Ring


We must be tender with all budding things.
Our Maker let no thought of Calvary
Trouble the morning stars in their first song.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The Land of Heart's Desire


The beginning is the promise of the end.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects


The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

ALAN MOORE

V for Vendetta


Things are always at their best in their beginning.

PASCAL

Provincial Letters