Starting Quotes

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

“The beginning is always NOW.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.”
― Alberto Salazar

“I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.”
― Elmore Leonard

“Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)”
― Richie Norton

“Got an idea to start", "Thinking to start" and "Making a commitment to start" is one aspect of life.
Actually "Starting" what you truly want to do in life, is a completely different ball game.”
― Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

“Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

“Work on.
" Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.”
― Leopold von Sacher Masoch

“The beginning is always NOW.”
― Roy Bennett

“Ripples are made by those reckless enough to jump into the ocean.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“You think you are a loser just because you haven’t yet won. When you start winning, you will realize that your insinuations were just a figment of your imagination.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“Good nutrition is always an excellent starting point in regaining health.”
― Steven Magee

“To create, you need talent.
To begin, you need passion.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“You see, it's easy for someone to walk around telling everyone that they're "jus' waitin' for the right opportunity," but an entirely different thing when they actually receive it. An opportunity means change. An opportunity means action. But most of all, an opportunity means the chance of failure. And it's the potential of failure, more than failure itself, that stops so many people from beginning anything.”
― Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck

“Life happens once. Get into character, and act the part you were given.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom

“Two decades into living in sunny climates, my body was covered with black and brown pigmentation spots. I was clearly starting the process of turning into a black person.”
― Steven Magee

“في أحد الأعوام العصيبة، ومن رحم عقل غارق في بحر الظلمات البارد الدبق الكريه، مختنق، منهار، يكاد أن ينفجر، أو الأسوأ أن يفقد صوابه.. ولد تليد”
― Jumana Osama Alaama, تليد وقمر جديد

“Of course, it comes down to a little creativity and a lot of motivation. The creativity is inside all of us. The motivation is rougher.”
― Jim Brickman, Jim Brickman -- Simple Things: Piano/Vocal/Chords

“Stop stating your goals and start setting them.”
― Rob Liano

“If you want to study rigged government systems, police internal affairs is a good starting place.”
― Steven Magee

“When you are sick, a good multivitamin is always a great starting point.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“Talvez começar e continuar sejam coisas inegavelmente iguais, já que não me lembro de quando eu começo,
mas me lembro de continuar. (...) Talvez começar e continuar seja a única coisa que eu conheça, porque não consigo ver o fim disso.”
― Elli C. Almeida, Coração morto

“Rhymes are rhymes, each rhyme a start,
few the rhymes per hour I write,
please just tell this to your heart:
search for me, no compass, quite.”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“One must finish something to start something.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Every great journey begins with just the courage to take the first step, no matter how small”
― Manuel Corazzari

“What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day,

Is ourselves. And that’s all we need
To start. That’s everything we require to keep going.

Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.”
― Alberto Ríos, Not Go Away Is My Name

“You won't get it done if you don't get started. You won't finish up if you are not fired up.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“May you have the courage to begin; the patience to persist; and the strength to finish.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“It's tough in the beginning. You're going to fall. You're going to fail. But if you keep going, it'll be worth it.”
― Richie Norton

“There's no place else: begin from where you are.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke