New Beginnings quotes
225 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one."
"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."
"The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own."
"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."
"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."
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"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been"
"If not you, who? If not now, when?"
"Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!"
"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."
"A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be."
"And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings."
"Every moment is a new beginning."
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
"According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere."
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden."
"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
"Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you."
"Imagination rules the world."
"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."
"Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life."
"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."
"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory."
