Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step."
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Beginners
83 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ruth Whitman
Poet
"In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them."
Alexander Elder
Trader and Author
"When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them."
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"Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness"
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"Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur."
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"An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many."
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"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."
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"There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind."
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"We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums."
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"We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!"
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"There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner."
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"Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested."
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"That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love."
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"Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it."
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"Miracles are for beginners."
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"We are all beginners, it just takes some of us longer to realize it"
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"Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!"
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"But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level."
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"I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf."
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"Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner."
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"A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds."
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"Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
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"Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion."
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