Quotes on Endings Being New Beginnings

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

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.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

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.