Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Plato

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
George Burns

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius

In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Gilda Radner

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
Lauren Bacall

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette Davis

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