Endings Being New Beginnings Quotes - Page 2

• Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

  Alan Cohen

  Motivational, Change, Success

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• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  J. B. Priestley

  Life, Motivational, Good Morning

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• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

  Mae West

  Love, Sad, Boyfriend

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.328

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• One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

  George Eliot

  New Beginnings, Men, Finding Yourself

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.91, Penguin

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Goodbye, Art, Business

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  New Beginnings, Tunnels, New Start

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Dream, Spring

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• Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.

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• Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

  Byron Katie

  New Beginnings, Simple, Life Is

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• A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

  Eda LeShan

  Inspirational, Dream, Baby

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Beginnings, Able, Violence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). “Rodin and Other Prose Pieces”

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• In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

  Henri Matisse

  Able, Influence, Walks

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

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• When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall, Writing, Sick

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Inspiring, Recovery

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• There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Spring, New Beginnings

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• Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, New Beginnings, Yesterday

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  You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 16, 2014

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• And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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