Quotes on New Beginnings

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

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

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. _x000D_ Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.

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?

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

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

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

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

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.