Begin Quotes

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

“Begin at the beginning,”, the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Where does the world come from? She hadn’t the faintest idea. Sophie knew that the world was only a small planet in space. But where did space come from? It was possible that space had always existed, in which case she would not also need to figure out where it came from. But could anything […]

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

Beginnings are always messy.

An ill beginning hath an ill ending.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one […]

Still ending, and beginning still.

To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise; begin!.