beginning quotes

23 quotes

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

George Eliot

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Lao Tzu

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

The Weeknd

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

Nipsey Hussle

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

E. E. Cummings

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Khalil Gibran

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Napoleon Hill

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Thomas Carlyle

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

Stephen Hawking

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

Che Guevara

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Aristotle

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Stephen Hawking

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Benjamin Franklin

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius