Well begun is half done. [ Proverb ]

Whatever begins, also ends. [ Seneca ]

Fragile beginnings of a mighty end. [ Mrs. Norton ]

Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first. [ Ovid ]

The beginnings of all things are small. [ Cicero ]

Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends. [ Davenant ]

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! [ Longfellow ]

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [ Quintilian ]

The principal part of everything is the beginning. [ Law Maxim ]

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

Bad beginnings have bad endings (a bad end of a bad beginning). [ Ter ]

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

All things are symbolical, and what we call results are beginnings. [ Plato ]

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [ Ausonius ]

Still thou knowest that in the ardor of pursuit men lose sight of the goal from which they start. [ Schiller ]

Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. [ Ausonius ]

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [ Ovid ]