"The right way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

"No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase."

"The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something."

"Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."