Every journey starts with a single step, and sometimes all it takes is a few inspiring words to spark that first move. Whether you’re embarking on a new project, facing a life change, or simply seeking motivation to start fresh, the right quote can ignite your determination and hope. In this collection, we’ve gathered 48 of the most uplifting and powerful beginning quotes to encourage you to take that vital first step toward your goals.
1. “The beginning is always today.” - Mary Shelley
2. “Aus Furcht vor einem Fehler nichts anzufangen ist das Zeichen eines schlechten Mannes.” - Hitopadesa
3. “It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.” - Gregory Maguire
4. “I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)” - Louisa May Alcott
5. “I am an old man, and I am dying...Will you remember me, Jacob?"I promise, one day, I will join you, Mr. Gold."Mr. Gold's laughter sounded like a trumpet and brought light to the corners of the room.” - Noah BenShea
6. “It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.” - Tom Stoppard
7. “Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.” - Vera Nazarian
8. “In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.” - Sam Tanenhaus
9. “In every end, there is also a beginning.” - Libba Bray
10. “Maybe it was a storybook beginning.” - Daniel Nayeri
11. “Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.” - Jennifer Love Hewitt
12. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” - Meister Eckhart
13. “In the beginning..when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out.” - Toba Beta
14. “At the beginning was The Word. Today I see That in great quotes.” - Toba Beta
15. “The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.” - Ezra Pound
16. “William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand.” - Salman Rushdie
17. “The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.” - Ralph Ellison
18. “There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
19. “My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.” - Jonathan Safran Foer
20. “I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.” - Monty Roberts
21. “The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?” - Esme Raji Codell
22. “Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” - Ralph Blum
23. “I wouldn't know where to start.""He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?""Harry Emerson Fosdick...” - Kami Garcia
24. “As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.” - C. JoyBell C.
25. “Los peores sitios del mundo se pueden soportar si la gente que allí habita es interesante y amable.” - Lemony Snicket
26. “Algunas veces, sólo decir que odias algo y que alguien esté de acuerdo contigo puede hacer que te sientas mejor, a pesar de lo terrible de la situación.” - Lemony Snicket
27. “Es muy útil, cuando uno es joven, aprender la diferencia entre «literal» y «figurado». Si algo ocurre de forma literal, ocurre realmente; si algo ocurre de forma figurada, es como si estuviese ocurriendo. Si tú estás literalmente volando de alegría, por ejemplo, significa que estás saltando en el aire porque te sientes muy contento. Si, en sentido figurado, estás saltando de alegría, significa que estás tan contento que podrías saltar de alegría, pero que reservas tu energía para otros asuntos.” - Lemony Snicket
28. “Si conocieseis al Conde Olaf y éste de repente os sirviese el desayuno, ¿no temeríais que contuviese algo terrible, como veneno o cristal hecho añicos?” - Lemony Snicket
29. “Cualquiera que conociese a Violet se hubiera dado cuenta de que estaba pensando intensamente, porque llevaba la larga melena recogida con una cinta para que no se le metiera en los ojos. Violet tenía el don de inventar y construir extraños aparatos, y su cerebro se veía inundado a menudo con imágenes de poleas, palancas y herramientas, y ella no quería que algo tan trivial como su cabello la distrajese.” - Lemony Snicket
30. “pero es una triste realidad de la vida que, cuando alguien ha perdido a un ser querido, a veces los amigos le esquivan, justo en el momento en que su presencia es mucho más necesaria.” - Lemony Snicket
31. “El olor de comida cocinándose es a menudo relajante.” - Lemony Snicket
32. “Estoy seguro de que en el transcurso de vuestra vida os habréis dado cuenta de que las habitaciones de las personas reflejan su personalidad. En mi habitación, por ejemplo, he reunido una colección de objetos que son importantes para mí, y que incluyen un polvoriento acordeón en el que puedo tocar algunas canciones tristes, un legajo de notas sobre las actividades de los huérfanos Baudelaire y una fotografía borrosa, hecha hace mucho tiempo, de una mujer llamada Beatrice. Son objetos muy valiosos e importantes para mí.” - Lemony Snicket
33. “Pero las leyes son un poco raras. Por ejemplo, un país de Asia tiene una ley que obliga a que todas las bicicletas tengan las ruedas del mismo tamaño. Una isla tiene una ley que prohíbe que nadie recoja la fruta. Y una ciudad no demasiado alejada de donde vivimos tiene una ley que me prohíbe acercarme a menos de ocho kilómetros de sus límites.” - Lemony Snicket
34. “Seguro que sabéis que cuando uno está en su propia habitación, en su propia cama, una situación triste puede mejorar un poco” - Lemony Snicket
35. “Así pues, a menos que hayáis sido muy, muy afortunados, sabréis que una buena y larga sesión de llanto a menudo puede haceros sentir mejor, aunque vuestras circunstancias no hayan cambiado lo más mínimo.” - Lemony Snicket
36. “It all began when... they're funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone it begins when you're born. Or before that, when your parents got married. Or before that, when your parents were born. Or when your ancestors colonised the place. Or when humans came squishing out of the mud and slime, dropped off their flippers and fins, and started to walk. But all the same, all that aside, for what's happened to us there was quite a definite beginning” - John Marsden
37. “The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.” - Alan Moore
38. “For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.” - Ally Condie
39. “Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.” - Paulo Coelho
40. “The story I am going to tell has more than one beginning and without an end.” - T. Afsin Ilgar
41. “Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.” - Dejan Stojanovic
42. “Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.” - Dejan Stojanovic
43. “The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
44. “The future begins today.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman
45. “No ordinary effort stops the wheel.In sleep it spins without resistance.Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change.” - Stephen Demone
46. “Go on till you come to the end; then stop.” - Lewis Carroll
47. “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” - Jack Kornfield
48. “Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.” - Barbara Kingsolver
