Begin Quotes

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. (“To Kill a Mockingbird”)

One can begin so many things with a new person!—even begin to be a better man.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Most of those who keep on making fresh starts make rotten progress.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.

All glory comes from daring to begin.