Fresh Start Quotes: 21 Quotes for New Beginnings

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu

The beginning is the most important part of the work. 

Plato

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Lao Tzu

Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.

Paulo Coelho

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

Seneca

It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.  Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Leonardo Da Vinci

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. 

C. S. Lewis

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.  

Amelia Earhart

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to be great to start. 

Zig Ziglar

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Earl Nightingale

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Thomas J. Watson