The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Robert Collier

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Robert Collier

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Richard Bach

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
Lee Iacocca

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Vladimir Lenin

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Lewis Carroll

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Spike Milligan

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Richard M. Nixon