Starting Quotes

The starting point of all achievement is desire. (Napoleon Hill)
Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. View quote
Jane Goodall
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. View quote
John Dewey
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. View quote
Cesare Pavese
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. View quote
Anne Frank
Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. View quote
Terry Pratchett
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution. (Daniel Dennett)
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. View quote
John Rawls
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. View quote
W. Clement Stone
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. View quote
Guy Debord
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. View quote
Napoleon Hill
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it. View quote
Nick Bostrom
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. View quote
Brian Tracy
I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting. (Brendan Fraser)
Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran. View quote
Dean Karnazes
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas. View quote
Burt Ward
You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem. View quote
Alan Vega