Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee

You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
Robert Fitzgerald

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.
Katherine Dunham

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
Edmund Husserl

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Hu Shih

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Jane Fonda

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
George Mason

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
James Taylor

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
Tadao Ando

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
Rudy Giuliani

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
Helen Rowland

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
James Hillman

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell