The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il read more

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui
coute.]

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
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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.]

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.

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.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

First things first, second things never.

First things first, second things never.

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.