I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Material possessions winning scores and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
From the beginning there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
Conservatives are winning offices and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
The problem is that when government controls the economy those who can influence government keep winning and everybody else just stays the same.
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic accountable and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods and of every good to man.
Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father a good teammate a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed or are you not?
On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah everything is beautiful.
In the beginning there was nothing. God said 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing but you could see it a whole lot better.
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination how can we be very far from the beginning?
The future author is one who discovers that language the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language will serve him in winning through to his way.
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can learn what we can improve the solutions and pass them on.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
The future is always beginning now.
Even though the future seems far away it is actually beginning right now.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.