~ A good beginning makes a good end. ~
~ The beginning is the half of every action. ~
~ All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. ~
~ But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. ~
~ Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ~
~ He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. ~
~ My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained, and unprejudiced mind. ~
~ Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. ~
~ The past is but the beginning of a beginning. ~
~ The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. ~
~ It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome. ~
~ The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ~