Best Beginnings Thoughts
337 Beginnings quotes by 289 unique authors
-
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near…
— William Shakespeare
-
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
— Ovid
-
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
— Gautama Buddha
-
Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If…
— Thomas Merton
-
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial…
— Octavio Paz
-
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
— Leon Battista Alberti
-
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add…
— William Morris Hunt
-
All beginnings are hard.
— Chaim Potok
-
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
— Rachel Carson
-
I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our…
— John Muir
-
No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.
— Nikita Khrushchev
-
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
— Rachel Carson
-
When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.
— Criss Jami
-
I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.
— Louisa May Alcott
-
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
— John Galsworthy
-
Beginnings are always messy.
— John Galsworthy
-
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common -…
— Baltasar Gracian
-
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
— Lev Grossman
-
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by…
— Leonardo da Vinci
-
When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
-
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
— Livy
-
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
— Gustav Mahler
-
It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics…
— David Maraniss
-
I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
-
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
— Meghan O'Rourke
More Ways to Read Beginnings Quotes
Who Wrote These Beginnings Quotes
289 authors contributed a total of 337 Beginnings Quotes, led by these top contributors: