All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.             —Lao-Tzu

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.                   —Joe Sabah

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.     —Martin Luther King, Jr

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.          —Chinese proverb

It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round.             —Colette

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

                                                                         —Harry Emerson Fosdick

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.      —Horace

The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.

                                                                              —Marquise du Deffand

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.                                      —John Galsworthy

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that’s why we decide we’re done. It’s getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.                                                                              —Natalie Goldberg

Almost everything comes from nothing.                 —Henry F. Amiel

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.                                                                —Albert Camus

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, not in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.   

                                                                                      — John F. Kennedy

All glory comes from daring to begin.                     —Eugene F. Ware

When there is a start to be made, don’t step over! Start where you are.              —Edgar Cayce

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.      —St Francis of Assisi

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.                                                                              —George Bernard Shaw

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.               —Alexander Clark

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.          —Louis L’Amour

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.                                                                                                                        

                                                                                    —Sir Francis Drake