Beginning Quotes - page 6

Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that. (Tupac Shakur)
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. View quote
Sallust
In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot. View quote
Mark Twain
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The beginning is the chiefest part of any work. View quote
Plato
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. View quote
Henry Ford
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. View quote
Franz Kafka
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. View quote
Laozi
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance. View quote
Albert Einstein
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. (Edward Abbey)
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time. View quote
Ervin László
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. View quote
Markus Zusak
Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study - which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I'm beginning to have morning sickness. I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning. View quote
Phyllis Diller
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. View quote
Beverly Cleary
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean. View quote
Brad Thor
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. View quote
Jonathan Carroll
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. View quote
Esther Perel
We are beginning to see the benefits of globalconsolidation. (Lakshmi Mittal)
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
In the beginning it was all black and white. View quote
Maureen O'Hara
I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive. View quote
Barry Mann