In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should
be made.
[Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est
praeparatio diligens.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Officiis (I, 21)
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Ivy Baker
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A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Unknown
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A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Unknown
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Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again
begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
[Lat., Incipe; dimidium facti est coepisse. Supersit
Dimidium: rursum hoc incipe, et efficies.]
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Quotes , Source: Epigrams (LXXXI, 1)
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Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands
for the whole.
[Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.]
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Quotes , Source: Idyllia (II, Inconnexa, 5)
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
[Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coute a vaincre la
pudeur.]
Jacques Benigue Bossuet
Quotes , Source: Pensees Chretiennes et Morales (IX)
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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.]
Madame Marie Anne du Deffand
Quotes , Source: Letter to d'Alembert
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It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
[Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
Caius Cornelius Gallus
Quotes , Source: Anat. Melan., by Burton (translator)
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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.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Quotes , Source: in his inaugural address
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour
Quotes , Source: Lonely on the Mountain
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At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the
underlying mathematical structure will be seen.
Louis L'Amour
Quotes , Source: Lonely on the Mountain
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Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Heroides (IX, 23)
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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.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Remedia Amoris (XCI)
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Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (prologue at V, i)
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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes , Source: Major Barbara
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