Quotes about New Beginnings

Starting over, read our collection of sayings and quotes about new beginnings. Be inspired by the words of wisdom as you start a new chapter in your life, whether it be graduation, marriage, a move, a new child, a separation, all can be done with positive thoughts in mind. Find wisdom in these phrases, expressions, sayings, and quotations about new beginnings and let them inspire and motivate you to always start!

"No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning." Proverb

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." Bill Vaughan

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." Henry Moore

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." Hal Borland

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." Oprah Winfrey

"When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are." Edgar Cayce

"You will never reach your goal until you start to take action, any action." Byron Pulsifer, Take Action; Don't Procrastinate

"The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings." Dave Weinbaum

"Almost everything comes from nothing." Henry F. Amiel

"One step must start each journey." Author Unknown, from Just One

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." Henry Ford

"Part of the process of beginning anew, or changing directions is to know where you want to go. I know this sounds simplistic and easy, but this is one of the most difficult of choices to make with clarity." Byron Pulsifer, May Is Not Just For Flowers

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." Louis L'Amour

"All glory comes from daring to begin." Eugene F. Ware

"Making the beginning is one third of the work." Irish Proverb

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." Demosthenes

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

"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you." Barabra Sher

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything." Napoleon Hill

"Don't waste it with a false start of no start at all. You were not born to fail." Og Mandino

"Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself." Olga Korbut

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

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." Og Mandino

"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

"The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult." Marquise du Deffand

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you." Jim Rohn

"Dissatisfaction is a great starting point, for it is right there that we have the most power, strength, and energy to push change through." David DeNotaris

"Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be." Marsha Petrie Sue

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all." Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Martin Luther King Jr.

"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." Napoleon Hill

"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere." Peter Robert Fleming

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress." Thomas Edison

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

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome." William James

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door." Albert Camus

"To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom." German Proverb

"The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette." Henry S. Hoskins

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning." John Henry Cardinal

"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt." Francis Bacon

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." Ivy Baker Priest

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." Carl Bard

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." Lao-Tsu

"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy." Lucille Ball

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance." Oprah Winfrey

New Years is sometimes consider a new beginning, enjoy the following words of wisdom about New Years:
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. Edith Lovejoy Pierce

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights." Hamilton Wright Mabie

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. Ellen Goodman

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. Author Unknown

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. Charles Lamb

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. John Burroughs

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
T.S. Eliot

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. Anne De Lencios

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! Edward Powell

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time. Ann Landers

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