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Jai Ganesh

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Beginning Quotes

Beginning Quotes

1. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. - Winston Churchill

2. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa

3. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

4. The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato

5. What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. - T. S. Eliot

6. 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

7. Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. - Lewis Carroll

8. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. - Bruce Lee

9. If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence. - Lao Tzu

10. If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. - Galileo Galilei

11. Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. - John Ruskin

12. To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. - Confucius

13. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

14. Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. - Khalil Gibran

15. Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. - Henry Kissinger

16. If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive. - Elon Musk

17. The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. - H. G. Wells

18. So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? - Stephen Hawking

19. So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. - Florence Nightingale

20. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes

21. The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. - Edward Gibbon

22. Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. - Democritus

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

24. The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

25. More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

26. God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them. - Isaac Newton

27. From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want. - Rupert Murdoch

28. The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word. - Mark Twain

29. Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle. - Mike Tyson

30. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. - Charles Darwin

31. All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course. - Marie Curie

32. The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. - Steve Jobs

33. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. - Aristotle

34. People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. - Steven Spielberg

35. Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. - Indira Gandhi

36. In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well. - Sam Walton

37. The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading. - Alfred Nobel

38. We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. - Barack Obama

39. We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken. - Colin Powell

40. Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. - John Ruskin

41. The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. - George Eliot

42. Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. - Billie Jean King.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.