GUEST POST from Mitch Ditkoff
1.”Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth — not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha
- “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart
- “All great ideas and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.” – Albert Camus
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “Beginnings are always messy.” – John Galsworthy
- “When there is a start to be made, don’t step over! Start where you are.” – Edgar Cayce
- “So many fail because they don’t get started — they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.” – W. Clement Stone
- “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
- “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
- “The beginnings of all things are small.” – Cicero
- “What’s well begun is half done.” – Horace
- “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
- “The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Chinese Proverb
- “No good ending can be expected in the absence of the right beginning.” – I Ching
- “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King
- “Beginning is easy — continuing hard.” – Japanese Proverb
- “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour
- “The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.” – Henry Hoskins
- “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi
Thanks to Val Vadeboncoeur for locating these quotes.
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