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Quotations: New Beginnings


And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. - Rainer Maria Rilke

You raze the old to raise the new. - Justina Chen Headley

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I. - John Steinbeck

One can begin so many things with a new person-even begin to be a better man. - George Eliot

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew. - Aberjhani

You're never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from scratch once again. - Harriet Morgan

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

Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you're going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. - Marilyn Grey

Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. - Ralph Blum

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. - Dave Weinbaum
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