New Beginnings famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.
-- Amby Burfoot -
Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If initial conditions do not forever determine an object's motion, if instead, every time we observe, there is a new beginning, then the world is creative at the base level.
-- Amit Goswami -
I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.
-- Amy Irving -
We might say that the dream tranforms the dreamer; that it possesses the ability to 'initiate', to bestow new meaning, to motivate new beginnings (Latin: initium - beginning), to permit our entrance (literally 'en-trance'; Latin: inire init - to go in) to new orders of relation between ourselves and the 'other'.
-- Andrew D. Chumbley -
My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.
-- Anne Tyler -
Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
-- Antonio Banderas -
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.
-- Bernard Lonergan -
No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.
-- Bikram Choudhury -
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 -
In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.
-- Billy Graham -
It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.
-- Brené Brown -
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
-- Byron Katie -
The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.
-- C. S. Lewis -
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.
-- Caroline Myss -
Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
-- Charles Kettering -
You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings.
-- David Wilkerson -
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
-- Desmond Tutu -
God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.
-- Eric Hoffer -
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.
-- Erwin McManus -
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 -
I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.
-- Gabrielle Roy -
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
-- George Eliot -
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.
-- George Eliot -
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
-- Guy Finley -
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
-- Hal Borland -
I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?
-- Hillary Clinton -
It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.
-- Hillary Clinton -
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.
-- Horace Bushnell -
Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.
-- Iain Pears -
There can always be new beginnings... even for people like us.
-- J. Michael Straczynski -
live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve.
-- Jeffrey R. Immelt -
It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?
-- Jim Rohn -
People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.
-- Jimmy Cliff -
Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.
-- Joel Osteen -
No matter what may be happening today, God has good things in store for your future! It may not be easy to see now, but God has already lined up a new beginning, new friendships and new opportunities for you.
-- Joel Osteen -
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
-- John Galsworthy -
Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.
-- Joyce Meyer -
You have a great God who loves you and cares about you. Be full of hope that something good can happen to you. God is a master at new beginnings. He loves fresh beginnings, He makes all things new.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
-- Julia Cameron -
Every breath is a new beginning and a new chance.
-- Julia Gregson -
The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.
-- Jürgen Moltmann -
As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?
-- Kurt Masur -
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
Tomorrow is a new beginning. Embrace the light of a new day, for you have a fresh chance to begin again, to make life beautiful.
-- Leon Brown -
A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?
-- Linda Grant -
Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life.
-- Lloyd John Ogilvie -
The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
-- Lucretius -
From every ending comes a new beginning.
-- Lurlene McDaniel -
Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.
-- Marianne Williamson -
New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.
-- Marissa Mayer -
Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.
-- Marla Runyan -
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?
-- Matthew Arnold -
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ourselves in a cultural and moral landscape that is disturbingly familiar, yet entirely new. As though granted a new beginning, Marcus renames the creatures of our world, questions who we are and who, as men and women, we might be. Notable American Women is a wonder book, pleasurable and provocative.
-- Maureen Howard -
It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.
-- Mel Gibson -
The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
-- Muriel Rukeyser -
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
-- Napoleon Hill -
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 -
Life begins now -- right now -- not tomorrow or the next day or the next. Every minute of every hour of every day, life begins anew. That means everything can change in an instant. It also means you can have a new beginning whenever you want.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
-- Norman Vincent Peale -
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.
-- Plato -
Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
-- Plato -
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
-- Prince -
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
Everything ends. But there are always new beginnings.
-- Ralph Bellamy -
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
-- Richard Peck -
Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.
-- Richard Rohr -
If you don't get the ending you desire.... have faith in the magic of new beginnings.
-- Rita Zahara -
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
-- Robert Collier -
New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.
-- Robert Graves -
There will be no new arcadian age. There will always be new burdens, new problems, new failures, new beginnings. And the glory of man is to respond to his harsh fate with zest and ever-renewed effort.
-- Samuel Florman -
A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.
-- Sara Zarr -
Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -
You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old? The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing. What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river.
-- Stephen Foster -
Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
-- T. S. Eliot -
It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.
-- Tracy Chapman -
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
-- Walter Pater
