Top 100 Begin It Quotes
#1. To give my next novel balance, I'm going to begin it with "The start" followed by a dozen carriage returns. It offsets the words, "The end.
Michael Kroft
#2. Life is not too short ... we just wait too long to begin it.
Joel Osteen
#4. Doesn't matter if you can dream it or not, all that matters is if you can begin it or not? Take that first step.
Vikrmn
#5. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. I see the canvas and I begin ... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
Willem De Kooning
#7. I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
Zooey Deschanel
#8. The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
Cesare Pavese
#9. There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire.
John Scalzi
#10. For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it?
Eugene H. Peterson
#12. I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.
Simon Armitage
#13. Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
Valentino Rossi
#14. It's true, love should be balanced. Some me, enough of you, a little bit of us. But when you are in love it's hard to set boundaries. Where does he end? Where do I begin? It's blurry.
Tammy Faith
#15. Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keith Ferrazzi
#16. Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton
#18. If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?
Nhat Hanh
#19. God will come into your plans. But the choice is yours whether you allow Him to begin it, or force Him to end it.
Roberts Liardon
#20. It doesn't matter where your journey begins, so long as you begin it ...
Solange Nicole
#21. Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Whatever you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
J.C. Ryle
#24. He realized with a start that something was about to begin. It might be something dull and uninspiring, something he had experienced countless times before, something that wouldn't make a lick of difference when he died. But it was always good to have something about to begin.
Nobuko Takagi
#25. As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
Abraham Lincoln
#26. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Margaret Atwood - In the end, we'll all become stories.
Puja Borker
#27. The best way to stop a bad habit is to never begin it
J. C. Penney
#28. Duty, Tattycoram. Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves.
Charles Dickens
#29. While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
Quintilian
#31. [T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true.
Andrea Dworkin
#33. Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Jennifer Donnelly
#34. I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
Bobby McFerrin
#35. Whatever prompted life to begin, it happened just once. That is the most extraordinary fact in biology, perhaps the most extraordinary fact we know.
Bill Bryson
#36. Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.
Vishwas Chavan
#37. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"
W. H. Murray
#38. One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.
Jasper Johns
#39. Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - frequently attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cinnamon Miles
#40. I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.
P.G. Wodehouse
#41. The places where death comes to take love away, where we lose each other and lose ourselves; that's where the connections begin. It takes a brave soul to look there and not despair."
"I've tried to be brave," she said.
"I know," he said softly. "I know.
Clive Barker
#42. Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian
#43. He was fighting hard to draw a line where politics could stop, where family loyalty could stop and his own personal morality and his own life could begin. It was hard to find that place
Bob Woodward
#44. It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent ... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Mark Twain
#45. there existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete - that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one another that even if a war were to begin, it would end quickly. Capital
Erik Larson
#48. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, ... begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - GOETHE
Howard Schultz
#49. The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.
Peter Kreeft
#50. By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
Dorothea Brande
#51. Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.
Julia Cameron
#52. The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.
Hadewijch
#53. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Terri Garey
#54. Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.
William Shakespeare
#55. It is a new world, and we must decide how we are to end this old one and begin it anew.
Sarah J. Maas
#56. A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.
Charles Caleb Colton
#57. JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere.
Alfred Jarry
#58. But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..
Sarah Dessen
#60. Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
Margaret Atwood
#61. Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.
Cornelia Funke
#62. To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.
Fred Alan Wolf
#63. If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.
Herman Melville
#64. People like Josh Bennett and I don't get perfect. Most of the time, we don't even get remotely tolerable. And that's why it scares me. Because, even if there was such a thing to begin with, perfect never lasts.
Katja Millay
#65. Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.
Bikram Choudhury
#66. This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing.
Derrick Jensen
#67. We cannot separate doubt from deception. Doubt robs a man of his confidence; it is a fearful thing. Offer him deception to restore that confidence and he will embrace the falsehood for the comfort it brings. If you would deceive, begin with doubt.
D.A. Blankinship
#68. Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.
Frederick Lenz
#69. You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.
Richard Dawkins
#70. Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.
Charles Spurgeon
#71. Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.
Joyce Meyer
#72. I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.
Molly Antopol
#73. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#74. Just as the Word of God is used in conversion, so it is a critical instrument in our spiritual growth. By immersing ourselves in the Word of God, we begin to gain the mind of Christ and learn what discipleship is.
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R.C. Sproul
#75. But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
John Updike
#76. God, I can't even begin to tell you ... I just wish that you could have felt it too. So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever.
Jay McLean
#77. Secrecy is for losers ... It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#78. There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.
Julia Glass
#79. Then, a life was ending. Here, one was about to begin. I didn't believe in signs. But it was hard to ignore the fact that someone, somewhere, might have wanted me to go through this again and see there was another outcome.
Sarah Dessen
#80. A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.
Kathryn Lasky
#81. I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#82. When we are willing to let God shape our identity, He will take whatever we have to offer and multiply it in ways and for a purpose that we cannot even begin to imagine.
Tim Tebow
#83. As the prana current, kundalini and different energies begin to move through you, you will feel yourself moving and rocking. Keep the body still, otherwise that energy will be lost as it expresses itself through the physical.
Frederick Lenz
#84. I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Robert Frost
#85. I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.
David Rakoff
#87. Therefore, a search for God's will should begin on your knees. He will meet you there. Remember that Jesus promised, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7).
James C. Dobson
#88. Success can locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are ... But you are responsible for constructing the roads ... Go, make the roads!
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. Begin to assess your own parenting. Acknowledging the painful reality that it is impossible to be a child of a narcissist and not be somewhat impaired narcissistically. Anyone raised this way has probably acquired a few traits of narcissism.
Karyl McBride
#90. The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.
Matt Bondurant
#91. I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.
John Hawkes
#92. 'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on.
Michel Faber
#93. We have to begin giving them the whole truth about premarital sex and the difficulties it can cause.
James C. Dobson
#94. You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can't expect the world to be better than we make it.
Laini Taylor
#95. I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from outside. It happened so quickly and took me by surprise; sometimes I just turned around and found it there-ah, camarade-unaware it had been waiting for me for days.
Bryan Mealer
#96. You just have to be careful because social media can begin to affect personal things such as relationships, just to pin point. People have become so entitled as it relates to social media.
Aeriel Miranda
#97. Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.
Stephen Levine
#98. To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.
John Austin Baker
#99. It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
Robin Morgan
#100. I don't know where the sun beams end
and the starlight(start of our lives) begin(s), it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what's right for his own life, it's all a mystery.
Wayne Coyne
