You May Also Like / View all maxioms
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.
To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.
It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
[Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
[Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a read more
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
read more
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
[Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it
be finished in the first read more
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it
be finished in the first 1,000 days, not in the life of this
Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
But let us begin.
A good beginning makes a good end.
A good beginning makes a good end.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.