Cornerstones

Beginnings

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Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.
T.S. Eliot

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)

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

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
Prince

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

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford

You can start new chapters in your life because it's your life, your book.
Oprah Winfrey

I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.
Louisa May Alcott

No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.
Buddha

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Desmond Tutu

The beginning is always today.
Mary Shelley

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Anne Sullivan

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Job 8:7 (KJV)

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
Muhammad Ali

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton

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