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 ~
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 ~
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~ St. Francis of Assisi ~
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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
~ Florence Nightingale ~
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
~ Demosthenes ~
Seems like I’ve been here before, can’t remember when I get this funny feeling, we’ll be together again; No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends; No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.
~ Tom Chapin ~ “Circles”
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
~ Dave Weinbaum ~
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
~ Murial Rukeyser ~ “Elegy in Joy” The Green Wave