Begin Quotes

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. (Benjamin Franklin)
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. View quote
Epictetus
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. View quote
Seneca
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. View quote
Laozi
All great truths begin as blasphemies. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. View quote
H. L. Mencken
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. View quote
Ronald Reagan
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. View quote
Richard Bach
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. View quote
Helen Rowland
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. (Henry van Dyke)
Well begun is half done. View quote
Aristotle
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. View quote
Ronald David Laing
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. View quote
Arthur Miller
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. View quote
U Thant
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. View quote
W. H. Auden
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. View quote
Robert Benchley
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. View quote
Peace Pilgrim
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. View quote
Emil Cioran