Top 100 Start Where You Are Quotes
#1. When you are down and you don't know how to pick yourself up, start where you are. I can hear Pat's voice saying the words in my head, "Left foot, right foot, breathe.
Robin Roberts
#2. Start where you are right at this very moment, capture everything you are thankful for, and then carry on with that feeling inside. You will be surprised at how far carrying that emotion will take you!
Tina Mitchell
#3. GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.
Lisa Washington
#5. In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.
Julia Cameron
#6. You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.
Pete Seeger
#8. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
#9. When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.
Edgar Cayce
#10. There is no easy or quick plan to happiness, there is no single spot where you can start. Where you are right now is the best place to begin.
Mark Twain
#11. Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don't stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... start.
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
#12. You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
#13. There's so much to write. Where should I start?
I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:
'You should start where you are
Ruth Ozeki
#14. Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.
Jim George
#15. Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
Robert Collier
#16. The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
Norman Vincent Peale
#17. You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go.
Zig Ziglar
#18. The XP philosophy is to start where you are now and move towards the ideal. From where you are now, could you improve a little bit?
Kent Beck
#19. Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
Mary Manin Morrissey
#20. PS ... ... confused from where you should start planning ... ... . !! Well, start from who you are, where you are and how you are.
Sameh Elsayed
#21. I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.
Drew Barrymore
#22. Try the impossible. Don't start low down because that's where you are now. Climb those rungs quickly before they take the ladder away. If you're afraid, say a prayer, but carry on.
Paulo Coelho
#23. We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They're living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to be in life. Get off the couch, turn off the tv and start achieving your goals.
Bianca Frazier
#24. Jesus said that whatever you did to the least of his people, you did to him, and the lifers in penitentiaries are the leastest people in this country. Just look to see whose budgets are being cut these days -- the old, the crazies, the children in Head Start -- and that's where Jesus will be.
Anne Lamott
#25. Begin now to obey Him in every way you can. Start right where you are, in the midst of all the tasks that press in upon you. Do not wait for some future time when you will have more time or be more perfect in knowledge.
Richard J. Foster
#26. A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
Adrian Rogers
#27. If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back.
Heidi Tankersley
#28. Maybe the problem with lying is that once you start faking it, it's impossible to tell where the make-believe you ends and the real you begins. It's hard to be who you are, but it's even harder to keep up the lie.
Autumn Doughton
#29. What are you waiting for tomorrow to do? To get done? To achieve? To start? Where your good intentions are disconnecting from the actions you should do for the things you desire?
Tony Curl
#30. Maybe before you start flirting with boys and kissing boys and trying to date boys, you should know who you are and where you stand.
Jill Santopolo
#31. Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.
Peter Levi
#32. To me, that's where memories are very interesting because what happens when we start losing memories? What happens when you can't take your memories with you? Who are we without our memories, without our past?
Don Hertzfeldt
#33. Stop twisting what I'm saying. It's not how you start, it's where you end up. This is where we are now and it's worth fighting for.
Kate Meader
#34. It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.
Robert D. Hales
#35. You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
Rachel McAdams
#36. You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Napoleon Hill
#37. Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.
Brian Tracy
#38. Where you are today is the sum of every choice you've ever made. If you don't like where you are, start making different choices!
Dave Ramsey
#39. It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?
Timothy Olyphant
#40. We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
Dave Haywood
#42. One of the most important things is to remind yourself of where you are from and be thankful. I don't for a second take anything for granted. That's a good way to start your day.
Colin Morgan
#43. I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.
Lee Daniels
#44. Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.
Robin Hobb
#45. The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you're going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you're meant to take.
A.J. Darkholme
#46. Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
Julia Cameron
#47. Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields.
John Steinbeck
#48. I wear crop tops and stuff, but I genuinely like that style, so it's just has to be genuine. Once you start getting to that world where you're using sexuality to try to propel something, you're losing the moment. You've lost; people are not focusing on that anymore.
Kiesza
#49. No matter where you are in the game, no matter how successful you might be, there will always be others out there who are more talented or more beautiful or more connected than you. Get used to it! If you start dwelling on everybody else's genius, it'll become a huge wave of doubt.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#50. We often equate a new beginning or fresh start to moving to a new area, changing jobs, starting a new business or entering a new relationship. While this is true, there is also the possibility that God wants to bring newness to you right where you are.
Jamie Larbi
#51. One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.
Oprah Winfrey
#52. A life that matters is not lived by circumstance, but by choice. It is not where you start, it is where you finish. From this moment ... how are you going to live your life?
Gordon F. Gatiss
#53. When your consciousness expands you are in a world, literally, of light. You live in a world of light where nothing is solid. You don't have to be enlightened to have this experience. You just have to start the inner journey.
Frederick Lenz
#54. One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
Philippa Gregory
#55. I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.
Simon Cowell
#56. I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.
Eva Longoria
#57. Small unexpected acts of kindness are the building blocks of greatness. Start your day with a smile and see where it takes you ...
Edwin Lionel Flynn
#58. To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.
Stephen Covey
#59. Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.
Napoleon Hill
#60. Determine your destination, choose a path, now with all your heart start going there.
Debasish Mridha
#61. For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, you can get better and you can start right where you are at and you can go as far as you want to go.
Jim Rohn
#62. Start from where you are. Empower yourself. Adjust habits. Triumph over those habits -- this is how we EAT folks! This is how it's done!
Nancy S. Mure
#63. There is nothing wrong in being selfish provided you know where your self interest are. Once you start meditating regularly you will come to a stage where you will realize that selfish action are those which brings peace and welfare to all and not only for yourself.
Subodh Gupta
#64. As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.
Jim Rohn
#65. The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
Alex Witchel
#66. I would encourage people that, if you are waiting for the end of 'The Office,' to re-tune in right away. It is the beginning of the end, where we start to break down what's going on with this documentary and see behind the scenes with who is involved.
Greg Daniels
#67. You are here, alive and awake and for whatever reasons you have fought your battles, it's time to start focusing on what strengths pulled you up when the entire world had knocked you down.
That's where the virtue in self grows.
Nikki Rowe
#68. If you are going to start a regulatory regime from scratch, you'd design it to protect middle-and lower-middle-income people, because the opportunity for them to get ripped off was so high. Instead what we had was a regime where those were the people who were protected the least.
Michael Lewis
#69. You can start from where you are with what you've got and go to where it is you want to go.
Zig Ziglar
#70. For me personally, Blink-182 has been a big influence. Just seeing them way back in the day play little shows and start from a garage band to where they are now, makes me believe anything is possible if you truly want it and commit your life to it.
Beau Bokan
#71. Are you saying we should start up where we left off?"
His comeback was instant. "Did it ever end for you?
Kristen Ashley
#72. When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.
Michael Owen
#73. Don't wait for passion to lead you somewhere you're not. Start by bringing passion to the place where you are.
John Ortberg
#74. The shelf where you can find the power to kick start is the shelf of self-confidence. No matter how loaded you are with the right information, you need to pull yourself out!
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.
Frederick Lenz
#76. We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life.
Steve Maraboli
#77. On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.
Jaggi Vasudev
#78. It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.
Vince Gilligan
#79. Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.
Joan Jett
#80. The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love you simply for being you. The once in a lifetime kind of people.
Kate Lattey
#81. You can't get where you want to go unless you start with where you are.
Michael Hyatt
#82. Home is not only the place you start from, but the place you come back to...where dreams are sustained, hurts healed, where our stories are told.
Robert M. Hamma
#83. And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.
Michel Faber
#84. sometimes people are broken and don't know how to mend because they aren't able to say what they need or deeply want. Sometimes you get to a point in life where you realize you've made a terrible mistake and you desperately need to fix it, but it's so deep and bitterly ingrained you can't start.
Loreth Anne White
#85. You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.
Deborah Day
#86. I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
Frank Gehry
#87. Why: Where do you even start to answer that simple one-word quandary? As huge as our souls are purported to be, what fills us with a bigger satisfaction - love or revenge? Would we rather give it all or take it all?
Corey Taylor
#88. If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is a crime where there is not consent. It is a felony. And we need to start making sure victims understand that, so they don't do the self blame.
Claire McCaskill
#89. Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.
Benjamin Franklin
#90. The first time you watch a movie that you like, all of the magic works on you. It's an experience of having a world unfold in front of you. But if you watch it again, you start to see where the seams are.
Marshall Curry
#91. Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that's where life starts, that's where you start feeling yourself living.
Philippe Petit
#92. I believe that if something is troubling you, simply start from where you are and take the action necessary to change it.
Susan Jeffers
#93. If you start having a society where people are policing their own thoughts, now we're back in Salem, Massachusetts, where literally, they didn't do anything for fun, and then that pressure built up and they all went nuts.
Mary Katharine Ham
#94. I've never believed in dieting, but there are people out there who have problems. My advice would be don't ever stop yourself to a point where you start craving something, because you end up bingeing. I think the key word is moderation.
Shilpa Shetty
#95. The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
Napoleon Hill
#96. I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
Arthur Ashe
#97. Let's start with where you are,' he said. 'You're here.' Taking her hand, he pressed it to his chest above his heart.
Jill Shalvis
#98. Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.
Wilferd Peterson
#99. Lindsey patted my arm. "Don't be embarrassed. It's about time you two made the beast with two backs."
I had to work to form words. "There are so many things wrong with that statement, I don't know where to start.
Chloe Neill
#100. Begin, then, where you are, not where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story - if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell
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