"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."

Beginning, Beginnings

37

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."

Exlpore more Beginning quotes

"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Beginning, Imperfection, Growth, Progress, Action

"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Beginning, End, Fall, Hope

"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, American Poet

Beginning, End

"The past is but the past of a beginning."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Beginning, Past

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

Stephen King, American Author

Beginning, Truth, Fear, Wisdom, Power

"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."

Marc Davis, American Artist

Beginning, Direction, Project, Trying

"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"

Kate Chopin, American Author

Beginning, World

"The first stage of any development is infancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Beginning, Development, Infancy, Stage, Growth

"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing."

Art Spiegelman, American Artist

Beginning,

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Beginning, Nationalism

Explore more quotes by John Galsworthy

"If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one."

Future

"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."

Religion

"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."

Thought

"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."

Life

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

Action

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

Idealism

"Beginnings are always messy."

Beginning

"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible."

Power

"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."

Identity

"The French cook; we open tins."

Travel