160 Start Quotes

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Famous Start Quotes

the best way to get something done is to begin. — Unknown

Every journey starts with a single step. — Confucius

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got. — Jim Rohn

The secret of getting ahead is getting started — Mark Twain

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. — Sally Berger

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. — James Cash Penney

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous. — Plato

If you don't start somewhere, you're gonna go nowhere. - Bob Marley

If you don't start somewhere, you're gonna go nowhere. — Bob Marley

you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. — Les Brown

Everything starts from a dot. - Wassily Kandinsky

Everything starts from a dot. — Wassily Kandinsky

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney

A bold onset is half the battle. — Giuseppe Garibaldi

To make an end is to make a beginning. — Sayings

A well begun is half ended. — Plato

Well begun is half done. — Aristotle

Short Start Quotes

  • You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
  • Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido Qubein
  • Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Ryun
  • Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. — Willie Nelson
  • Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. — Richard Branson
  • A year from now you may wish you had started today. — Karen Lamb
  • Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
  • If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. — Mother Teresa
  • Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. — Anthony Brandt

Start Image Quotes

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name. - Kendrick Lamar quote

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name. — Kendrick Lamar

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. - Peter Drucker quote

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. — Peter Drucker

Stop believing and start knowing. Trust in you. Trust in truth. - Steve Maraboli quote

Stop believing and start knowing. Trust in you. Trust in truth. — Steve Maraboli

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again. - Peter Tosh quote

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again. — Peter Tosh

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past. - Immortal Technique quote

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past. — Immortal Technique

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. - Stephen King quote

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. — Stephen King

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus quote

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus

The starting point of all achievement is desire. - Napoleon Hill quote

The starting point of all achievement is desire. — Napoleon Hill

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. - Tony Hsieh quote

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. — Tony Hsieh

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. - Willie Nelson quote

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. — Willie Nelson

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. - J. R. R. Tolkien quote

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. — J. R. R. Tolkien

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. - William James quote

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. — William James

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts! - Jerry O'Connell quote

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts! — Jerry O'Connell

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. - Honore de Balzac quote

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. — Honore de Balzac

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. - Eric Shinseki quote

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. — Eric Shinseki

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. - Jim Rohn quote

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. — Jim Rohn

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. - Sammy Hagar quote

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. — Sammy Hagar

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. - Dennis Green quote

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. — Dennis Green

I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now. - Piolo Pascual quote

I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now. — Piolo Pascual

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? - A. A. Milne quote

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? — A. A. Milne

Start quote You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Day Start Quotes

I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you. — Lisa Kleypas

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. — Michael Landon

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. - Jeannette Walls

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. — Jeannette Walls

Start quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. — Adrian Rogers

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. - Meister Eckhart

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. — Meister Eckhart

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. — Mary Oliver

Start quote When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.
When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.

In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors. — Joe Budden

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. — Ellen DeGeneres

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. — Norman Vincent Peale

There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. — Andrew Jackson

Good Start Quotes

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it. — Jesse Owens

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. — Nina Simone

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination. — Massimo Vignelli

Start quote Be willing to walk alone. Many who started with you won't finish with you.
Be willing to walk alone. Many who started with you won't finish with you.

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country. — Molly Ivins

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss. — Lee Iacocca

It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best. — K. Pattabhi Jois

Start quote Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. — Will Rogers

Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves, and if you don’t then start because everyone is beautiful. — Niall Horan

I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece, But my life been good since I started finding peace. — Nas

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Start The Day Quotes

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? — Linda Ellerbee

Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours. — Zig Ziglar

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — Frank Herbert

Start quote Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.

Don't let your thoughts run away with you, don't start planning to bail out because you're worried about the future and how much you can take. Don't look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day. — Marcus Luttrell

A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation's future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi

Start quote When you give up remember why you started.
When you give up remember why you started.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. — Bruce Springsteen

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say 'first alarm clock' because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup. — Jocko Willink

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful. — Satyajit Ray

The goal is to commit to a structure that can take on a life of its own, instead of creating only one of the mood strikes. Or to start each day with the question of how and when you’re going to work on your art. — Rick Rubin

To Start The Day Quotes

My biggest regret in business is not starting sooner. It took 4 years to build my first website, but the day I actually started to build my website it only took me 10 hours. — Alex Hormozi

'It's Everyday Bro' started with me talking about the things I do on a day-to-day basis. From there, the creativity was unleashed, and the song was the result. — Jake Paul

Start your day with a quote that you love. Start your day by looking at a picture of someone that you love. Start your day with a work of art that inspires you. Make the first thing that you see so closely connected to your purpose that your monk-mind naturally comes alive. — Jay Shetty

Start quote Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.
Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.

I know I am weird, but just keeping it real. A large bowel movement in the morning is a great way to start the day. — Will Bulsiewicz

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. — Barbara Kingsolver

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. — O. J. Simpson

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun. — David Gilmour

The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall. — Johnny Mercer

You didn't think that when you got up this morning that this would be the day your life would change did you? But it's going to happen because the only thing that stands between you and grand success are getting started and not stopping. — Robert H. Schuller

Embrace the embarrassment of being a beginner. The only way to accomplish something meaningful is to endure days, weeks, months, or even years of embarrassing failure. Every expert started out as a beginner. Those who embrace the embarrassment will eventually win. — Sahil Bloom

Start Today Quotes

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today. — Thurgood Marshall

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it. - Madam C. J. Walker

There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it. — Madam C. J. Walker

Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true. — Albert Einstein

Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher. — Murray Walker

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. — Henry James

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time. — Lisa Marie Presley

If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow. — David Suzuki

The future starts today, not tomorrow. - Pope John Paul II

The future starts today, not tomorrow. — Pope John Paul II

Fresh Start Quotes

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it. — John Updike

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. - C. S. Lewis

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis

Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while. - Bugsy Siegel

Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while. — Bugsy Siegel

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. - Mary Anne Radmacher

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from. — Seth Godin

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. - Lao Tzu

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Lao Tzu

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. — Alan Cohen

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange. — Brennan Manning

New day — new destiny. — Bulgarian Proverbs

Everyday is a new fresh start. To go straight back to bed. — PewDiePie

New Life Start Quotes

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. — Franz Kafka

To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted. — William James

You can't start the next chapter of your life - Michael McMillian

You can't start the next chapter of your life — Michael McMillian

I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning. — Amy Harmon

When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life. — Mark Manson

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings. — Meister Eckhart

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. — Seneca

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. - Rumi

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. — Rumi

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. — Bob Feller

Head Start Quotes

Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror. - Joubert Botha

Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror. — Joubert Botha

My mind runs I can never catch it even if I got a head start. — Kid Cudi

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'. — Lindsay Lohan

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.' — Tommy Cooper

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own. — Rupert Sanders

An ideal life for me is when we all have a head, a heart, and a hand, all working in alignment. Without one or the other, we start to lose something in life. — Jay Shetty

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. - Tina Weymouth

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. — Tina Weymouth

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head. — Al Pacino

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city. — Bob Filner

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. — Charles Monroe Schulz

Start And Finish Quotes

I start to think, and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines I escape when I finish the rhyme. — Rakim

Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare. — Peter Brook

Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other — Marc Mero

I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could. — Jake Paul

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off. — Joyce Meyer

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. — Johannes Brahms

Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way. — John Bevere

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm. — Woody Allen

I can remember sittin' in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin' until somebody got done so I could finish what they left. — Chris LeDoux

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. — Maya Lin

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More Start Quotes

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge. - Lee Majors quote

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge. — Lee Majors

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. - Patrick Dennis quote

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. — Patrick Dennis

I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school. - Joe Tex quote

I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school. — Joe Tex

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage. - Jack London quote

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage. — Jack London

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W. C. Fields quote

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. — W. C. Fields

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains. - Gale Norton quote

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains. — Gale Norton

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish. - Herman Edwards quote

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish. — Herman Edwards

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