"All glory comes from daring to begin."

Ware, Eugene F. on glory
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"For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

Howland, Bette on obstacles
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"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

Burroughs, John on blame
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."

Shaw, George Bernard on imagination
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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on fantasy
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"It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on goals   

"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."

Anster, John on action
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."

King Jr. Martin Luther on service
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"There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place."

White, Elwyn Brooks on youth   

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

Mille, Agnes De on life   

"... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."

Turgenev, Ivan on procrastination
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"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

Fellini, Frederico on passion
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"It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening."

Wells, H.G. on the future   

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

Santayana, George on happiness
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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joubert, Joseph on labor
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"Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy."

Proverb, German on laziness
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"He who begins and does not finish loves their pains."

Proverb on procrastination
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

Shaw, George Bernard on truth
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"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

Russell, Bertrand on wisdom   

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

Camus, Albert on greatness
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Lao-Tzu on beginning
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"Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."

Smith, Liz on action
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"There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are."

Trungpa, Chogyam on courage