Begin
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
To begin, begin.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life — bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.