As T. S. Eliot observed: “In my beginning is my end.” Every fresh start carries echoes of what came before, and every ending holds the seed of what is to come.

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“A good beginning is half the battle.” ~ Portuguese Proverb

“Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.” ~ Ivan Pavlov

“I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.” ~ Deborah Norville

“If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.” ~ Chögyam Trungpa

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” ~ Sally Berger

“It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.” ~ Hannah Arendt

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” ~ H. G. Wells

“If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“It is much easier to begin than to end.” ~ Plautus

“Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.” ~ Rachel Carson

“The beginnings of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.” ~ Kate Chopin

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.” ~ Albert Camus