Following is our list of beginnings and endings quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about happy endings and new beginnings.
What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings. — Ibn Taymiyyah
If you want to know the end, look at the beginning. — African Proverbs
The beginning is the most important part of the work. — Plato
Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings. — Joyce Meyer
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Lao Tzu
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Lao Tzu
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end. — Kahlil Gibran
The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed. — Plato
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end. — Mikhail Lermontov
Top 10 Beginnings And Endings Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. — Louis Kahn
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. — Immanuel Kant
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin on Love — James Baldwin
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. — George E. Mueller
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. — George Muller
I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond
Today begins, tomorrow continues, and it never ends until you reach your goal. — Greg Plitt
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. — Robert Browning
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. — Oscar Wilde
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. — Vandana Shiva
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Old Endings And New Beginnings Quotes
Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way. — William Bridges
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. — Joseph Campbell
I've sort of realized there's a definite pattern to my output at this point: there's an album that everybody sort of loves, that's a real balance between the old and new, like The Dreamer or No Beginning No End, like a blend of jazz and hip-hop, or r&b and soul and hip-hop. — Jose James
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs. — John F. Kennedy
Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one. — Michael Penn
Happy Endings And New Beginnings Quotes
Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. — Marsha Petrie Sue
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. — Oprah Winfrey
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies. — Vera Nazarian
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. — Nelson Mandela
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about things that matter.
Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don't come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come. — Jeffrey R. Holland
Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad. — Sonny Barger
If an egg is broken by outside, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster
I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death. — Sonny Barger
Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate. — Seth Rollins
It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles. — Terry Fox
Everything Has An End Quotes
Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly. — Susanna Kaysen
Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance. — Roger Ebert
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. — Jack Kornfield
Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.
Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about. — Jet Black
Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change. — Jack Kornfield
It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything. — Andre Breton
Habits begin as cobwebs and end up as chains.
The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit...What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends. — Sean Scully
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. — Quintilian
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. — Robert Reed
Everything has to come to an end, sometime. — L. Frank Baum
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning. — Carter G. Woodson
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation — Adrian Rogers
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. — Maria Callas
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsch
This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That's it. Beginning and end of list, Xbox. You know what she got me? A homemade frame with a picture of us from our first date together. Which was fine. Because I got her an Xbox. — Anthony Jeselnik
The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion. — Mas Oyama
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end,
full of new paths to discover,
where mystery remains eternal — Pierre Boulez
Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them. — Rhonda Byrne
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. — Maynard James Keenan
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. — Henry A Kissinger
Man, just believe in yourself, be able to dream, and know that there's going to be valleys and peaks. Always stay centered, and know that God is the key, the beginning and end of everything you do. — Common
Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. — Clark Moustakas
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end. — Joan D. Chittister
Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there. — Byron Katie
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. — Pau (Pablo) Casals
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. — Jean-Luc Godard
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
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure. — Erik Weihenmayer
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. — Kahlil Gibran
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. — C. S. Lewis
I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave. — Chris Cornell
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
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. — Robert Frost
The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms. — Dick Morris
A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression. — Peter Brook
As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end. — Erich Maria Remarque
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