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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
[ Possibilities ]
Henry Brooks Adams
24 votes
From small beginnings come great things.
[ Action ]
American Proverb
25 votes
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
[ Life and Living ]
Minna Antrim
28 votes
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
[ Confession ]
St. Augustine
23 votes
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
[ Fear ]
Marcus Aurelius
26 votes
When great questions end, little parties begin.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Walter Bagehot
26 votes
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
[ Beginning ]
Ivy Baker
24 votes
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
[ Quotations ]
James Baldwin
23 votes
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
[ Ideals and Idealism ]
Stanley Baldwin
21 votes
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
Toni Cade Bambara
19 votes
With renunciation life begins.
[ Abstinence ]
Amelia E. Barr
15 votes
Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.
[ Belief ]
Saint Bartholomew
21 votes
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
[ Autobiography ]
John Berger
24 votes
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
[ Childhood ]
Ambrose Bierce
24 votes
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
[ Anger ]
H. G. Bohn
17 votes
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
[ Biography ]
Fawn M. Brodie
20 votes
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Heywood Broun
17 votes
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
[ Books - Reading ]
Les Brown
19 votes
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
[ Self-control ]
Robert Browning
27 votes
When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
[ Self-Conflict ]
Sir Frederick Browning
25 votes
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
[ Repentance ]
Lord Byron
23 votes
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
[ Greatness ]
Albert Camus
22 votes
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
[ Humankind ]
Elias Canetti
14 votes
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
[ Beginning ]
Thomas Carlyle
22 votes
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
[ Techniques ]
Raymond Chandler
21 votes
Before beginning, plan carefully.
[ Planning ]
Marcus T. Cicero
24 votes
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
[ Goals ]
Alexander Clark
16 votes
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
23 votes
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
[ Wickedness ]
Confucius
17 votes
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
[ Mind ]
Norman Cousins
19 votes
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
[ President ]
Clarence Darrow
18 votes
How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
Robert Cecil Day-Lewis
17 votes
Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.
[ Life and Living ]
P. L. Debevoise
17 votes
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
[ Dishonesty ]
Democritus
15 votes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
[ Opportunity ]
Demosthenes
19 votes