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.
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.
ââPlato
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
 ââRalph Waldo Emerson
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
ââRainer Maria Rilke
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
ââDave Weinbaum
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably thatâs why we decide weâre done. Itâs getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
ââNatalie Goldberg
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
ââLouis LâAmour
You donât have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
ââJoe Sabah
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your loverâs arms can only come later when youâre sure they wonât laugh if you trip.
ââJonathan Carroll
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
âHenry S. Hoskins
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurantâs revolving door.
ââAlbert Camus
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
ââHarry Emerson Fosdick
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.
ââColette
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