Each day the world is born anew
for him who takes it rightly.
~James Russell Lowell
for him who takes it rightly.
~James Russell Lowell
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
~Nido Qubein
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
~Rumi
Gratitude is a form of wisdom. It is patient, loving, hopeful, and rigorously honest. It denies nothing, and it overlooks nothing. It looks reality full in the face and says: This is true, this is me, this is my situation, and I have the opportunity to build from here. This is my starting point, and I will succeed!
~Phil Humbert
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
~Alan Cohen
Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ... and melting like a snowflake.
~Marie Beyon Ray
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~St. Francis of Assisi
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
~Joe Sabah
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
~Unkown
I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.
~Alexandra Stoddard
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment...this day...is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day...each moment of this day...a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.
~Dan Custer
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
~Robyn Davidson
Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew.
~Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
~Meister Eckhart
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
~JFK
Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.
~Rumi
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever you do or dream you can do ... begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
~J.W. von Goethe
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
~Plato
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
~Horace
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
~Henry Ford
You will never win if you never begin.
~Helen Rowland
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
~Annie Dillard
From small beginnings come great things.
~Proverb
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~Theodore Roosevelt
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
~John Heywood
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
~Sir Francis Drake
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~Lao Tzu
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
~Henry S. Hoskins
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
~Lao Tzu
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~Maria Robinson
The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.
~Marquise du Deffand
Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow ... today. Let it be a small beginning ... a tiny beginning. Your happiness depends on starting today ... every day.
~Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Making the beginning is one third of the work.
~Irish Proverb
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
~Natalie Goldberg
So many fail because they don't get started... they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
~W. C. Stone
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
~Louis L'Amour
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
~Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All glory comes from daring to begin.
~Eugene F. Ware
Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.
~Mark Victor Hansen
When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.
~Edgar Cayce
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
~Ivy Baker Priest
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
~T.S. Eliot
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
~Lao Tzu
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
~Chinese proverb
What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.
~ Unknown
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~George Bernard Shaw
Almost everything comes from nothing.
~Henry F. Amiel
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~C. S. Lewis
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
~Carl Bard
Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.
~Olga Korbut
It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.
~Guiseppe Borghese
Every end is a new beginning.
~Proverb
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose ... not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
~Anne Sullivan
Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.
~Julia Cameron
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
~Marsha Petrie Sue
One step must start each journey.
~Unknown
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
~Publilius Syrus
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
~Tom Stoppard
It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round.
~Colette
When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.
~Eileen Caddy
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
~Jonathan Winters
The metamorphosis that transforms the lowly worm into a beautiful butterfly reminds us of the loving miracle producing Creator always at work before us, around us, and in us. To witness this marvel is to experience our own resurrection, new life, and beginning.
~J. Lloyd Ewart
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities
within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
~Dr. Dale Turner
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
~Julia Cameron
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.
~Anne Frank
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
~Vincent van Gogh
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
~Anonymous
Celebrate endings for they precede new beginnings.
~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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