A good beginning is half the battle. ~ Portuguese Proverb
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge. ~ Ivan Pavlov
I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end. ~ Deborah Norville
If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. ~ Chögyam Trungpa
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Sally Berger
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings. ~ Hannah Arendt
The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. ~ H. G. Wells
If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive. ~ Zig Ziglar
It is much easier to begin than to end. ~ Plautus
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. ~ Rachel Carson
The beginnings of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. ~ Kate Chopin
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. ~ Albert Camus