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Beginnings

A good beginning makes a good end. – English Proverb

The beginning is the half of every action. – Proverb

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

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. – Charles Baudelaire

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. – William Bridges

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. – Thomas Carlyle

We must do something is the unanimous refrain. You begin is the deadening refrain. – Walter Dwight

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. – Peter Robert Fleming

Its never too late — never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. – Jane Fonda

A hard beginning maketh a good ending. – John Heywood

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching. – Yoshida Kenko

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. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. – Louis LAmour

The journey of a thousand miles
starts from beneath your feet.

NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand milesbegins by taking the initial step. – Lao-Tzu

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. – Dave Sim

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. – Source Unknown

Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing learn by necessity.
Wise men do in the beginning what fools do in the end. – Source Unknown

Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always. – Source Unknown