Beginning Quotes

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

~ Che Guevara

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Bertrand Russell

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

~ John Henry Newman

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

~ Jim Rohn

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

~ Nancy Pearcey

Mary Jo and I have three teenagers who are in their last years at home. In addition, I was just offered and accepted a position with Williams College as a visiting lecturer on leadership beginning in February 2017, and anticipate accepting other academic positions shortly.

~ Chris Gibson

Largely in the beginning, I did a lot of extra work because I was lighter than all the other guys. I was at a massive disadvantage, so I had to put on weight. I started with eating. I had to really focus on my diet.

~ David Robinson

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.

~ Molly Sims

I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.

~ Tilman J. Fertitta

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.

~ John Barrasso

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

~ Lao Tzu

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

~ Plato

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

~ Linda Mccartney

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

~ John C. Maxwell

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

~ Ernest Hemingway

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

~ Francis Drake

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

~ Alan Rickman

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

~ Sallust

I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

~ Mary Ellen Mark

When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

~ Ted Sarandos

From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

~ M. Stanton Evans

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

~ Tommy Chong

It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.

~ Irene Joliot-Curie

I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history.

~ Craig Venter

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

~ Jessi Klein

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

~ Jean-Luc Godard

You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.

~ Matthew Lillard

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

~ Barbara Smith

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

~ Jonathan Ive

The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.

~ Virginia Postrel

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

~ Gertrude Stein

I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.

~ Kat Graham

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

~ Gene Mauch

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

~ Beverly Cleary

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

~ Frank Auerbach

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

~ Billy Collins

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

~ Constantin Brancusi