Starting Quotes

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

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

“Gavin's Law: Live to start. Start to live.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

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

“If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.”
― Richie Norton

“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

“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

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

“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

“I find “this is it” too vulgar to accept

So I wait for a new starting point

As though life will begin there and then.”
― Charif Shanahan

“Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is to write it down at the proper time, otherwise it’s lost.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

“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

“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

“Today, like all days,

is another beginning.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems

“It’s something small, but I think the smaller things can be just as important.” “Everything has to start somewhere,” Zoe said, patting the top of Phee’s head. “And as long as we nurture them, they can grow beyond anything we thought possible.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea