Top 100 To Begin Quotes
#1. In the Vedic Calender, the year 2013 is said to be the year of Victory. Victory of the Good over Bad.It is said to begin in the end of march.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#2. Life was about to begin, so Arsenal had to go.
Nick Hornby
#3. At some point, when we have been blessed with profoundly moving, touching and special moments, it is important to stop questioning and to begin accepting the gift of the experience. Such moments add only richness and great joy to this journey called life.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#4. I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.
Alan Licht
#5. The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
Wilbur Wright
#6. As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
Taiye Selasi
#7. Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, this pure moving of the bird, there is no time, no space, but only the free doing-being of this very moment -now!
Peter Matthiessen
#8. How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!
Seneca.
#9. To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.
Louis L'Amour
#10. Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
Lamar Alexander
#11. I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.
Maria Semple
#12. The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.
Jan Struther
#13. Only with steadfast memories can we now be strong so as to undo the mistakes of the past, to begin anew and build from the rubble of their betrayal ...
F. Sionil Jose
#15. For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
Carter G. Woodson
#16. If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.
Dinesh D'Souza
#18. The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
Jacques Ellul
#19. My own [story] is the simplest ... it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence - and yet I find it the hardest to begin.
Julian Barnes
#20. The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
Mark Twain
#21. The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
Stephen Covey
#22. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.
Maggie Nelson
#23. I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher.
Richard Drew
#24. Wishes were like poison, Jimmy thought. When you made them, they were all bright and shiny, sweet as candy. But they lingered and languished and didn't come true, and so they curdled and went bad. Became toxic. That's why he never made them to begin with.
Kim Fielding
#25. To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.
Manuel Vazquez Montalban
#26. To begin with, let us take the following motto ... Literature is Love. Now we can continue.
Vladimir Nabokov
#27. I've noticed that women often have a desire to change men, even the ones they love."
"I've noticed that, too." Dougal frowned. "Which is odd, when you think about it. Because if you didn't
like the way a man is, why would you attach yourself to him to begin with?
Karen Hawkins
#28. There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.
Ian McEwan
#29. Turning on the lights doesn't make cockroaches appear; the light merely reveals their presence. Similarly, college does not cause anyone to become an unbeliever; college merely reveals that a person was never a genuine believer to begin with.
Todd Friel
#30. While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.
Violet Duke
#31. Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.
George Papandreou
#32. If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with? And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse.
Dorianne Laux
#33. You need to begin to network with angels and VCs while you are still ideating. It is easier to ask someone you know for funding than a stranger. Build your financial network by attending as many industry functions and reaching out for advice from experts online.
Jay Samit
#34. Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.
Andy Stanley
#35. I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president - which means, in our time, a dangerous president - unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.
Howard Zinn
#36. For one voyage to begin, another voyage must come to an end, sort of.
David Mitchell
#37. The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
Balthus
#38. To begin this Practice is easy. To persevere is difficult.
Nichiren
#39. Until you take your first step, you will not be able to open the door to begin the journey toward your ultimate goal.
Debasish Mridha
#40. 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
#41. I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.
Gunter Grass
#42. I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.
Perry Moore
#43. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Terri Garey
#44. To begin where you are, you have to be where you are. This
Eric Greitens
#45. When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended.
Iain Pears
#46. And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.
Dan Quayle
#47. How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.
Frederick Lenz
#48. And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that poor old uniparous whore and myself the last of my foul brood, neither man nor beast.
Samuel Beckett
#49. Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin.
Pocahontas
#50. It does not matter the number of lives you have led, if deep within, you still feel that you are waiting for your actual life to begin.
Srividya Srinivasan
#51. Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.
Agnes Bruckner
#52. Many of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.
Donald S. Whitney
#53. Sabine was now sixteen and old enough to begin doing what any girl like her would."
Brazen Mortal crossed her arms over her chest and knowingly said, "Prostitution."
"Wrong. Commercial fishing."
"Really?"
"Noooo," Sabine said. "Fortune-telling.
Kresley Cole
#54. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don't know how to find it, if you don't even know where to begin to look. - on librarians
Patrick Ness
#55. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization.
Winston Churchill
#56. To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.
Josemaria Escriva
#57. I never did get around to praying for myself, did I? Maybe that's what was behind it, though. Myself. Maybe the only reason I'd prayed for others to begin with was to bring myself good fortune. Was that true? Was it?
Markus Zusak
#58. Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.~ Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson
#59. To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.
Sheldon Vanauken
#60. It's good to listen to lots of different stuff, just whatever you like. The first two records I ever bought were Alice Cooper, Killer and Jethro Tull, Aqualung. That's two weird records to begin with, but I think they hold up well.
James Hetfield
#61. If we are to teach real peace in the world, and if we are to carry on a war against war, we have to begin with the children. -Mahatma Ghandi
Michael Gallegos Borresen
#63. Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren't virgins, Min. That's why there's people to begin with.
Daniel Handler
#64. To begin with, you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.
Richard Bach
#65. In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.
Jack Nicholson
#66. If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott
#67. Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
Alan Garner
#69. So it is very helpful to begin to recognize this comparing mind, this conceit of "I'm better than" or "I'm worse than" someone else. When we do not see it clearly, it becomes the source of much suffering. It makes us feel separated and apart from others; we reinforce the contraction of self.
Joseph Goldstein
#70. What must it feel like, I wondered, to begin again? Would I still be the same person if I woke up in a different language and another existence?
Madeleine Thien
#71. To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well
Jane Austen
#72. If she can be stolen, then she was never yours to begin with. And do not insult my skills or question my ability to come through. I always come through.
J.A. Huss
#73. He pondered, having many disjointed and unconnected brooding thoughts; they swam through him like silvery fish. Fears, and mild dislikes, and apprehensions. And all the silvery fish recirculating to begin once more as fear.
Anonymous
#74. Sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
Cecelia Ahern
#75. To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
Antony Beevor
#76. What about the Watchers?" "They've chosen to stay with me. They never had the prejudices against Daughters of Men anyway, which was their problem to begin with. I'm afraid your people might have their hands full with them.
Susan Ee
#77. There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
Susan Isaacs
#78. The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.
Elizabeth Alexander
#79. JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere.
Alfred Jarry
#80. Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
Bruce Springsteen
#82. I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.
Graham Swift
#83. I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
Bono
#84. ...yes is all you ever need to say to begin a journey.
Bill Richardson
#85. There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin.
Charlie Gordan
Daniel Keyes
#86. The only impossible task is the one which we fear to begin.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Two broken hearts - we would destroy each other before we even had a chance to begin.
J.L. Berg
#88. After all this window is whatever I want it to be, up to a point, that's right, don't compromise yourself. What strikes me to begin with is how much rounder it is than it was, so that it looks like a bull's-eye, or a porthole. No matter, provided there is something on the other side.
Samuel Beckett
#89. Love is like war, Easy to begin but hard to end...
Anonymous
#90. It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to begin with.
Gregory Maguire
#91. We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
Kenneth L. Pike
#92. 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
#93. I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.
Stewart Udall
#94. We need to begin to see hyper-masculinity as the disorder it is, and not as a strength.
Bryant McGill
#95. If it doesn't happen, it never was going to happen. If you never did it, it wasn't there to begin with.
Michael Lewis
#96. Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
Desmond Tutu
#97. If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with ... and then spread and radiate peace and love.
Rajneesh
#98. God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
Luis Palau
#99. Miss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by people she liked,and if revolutions, somehow, didn't always have to begin with one's self
with internal convulsions,sacrifices,executions.
Henry James
#100. The trick is to begin looking for the grace hidden beneath the struggle.
Deepak Chopra
