Beginning Quotes
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.