
“A hard beginning makes a good ending.”
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
The New Statesman, July 20, 1962, p. 7.
“A hard beginning makes a good ending.”
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)
Context: The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we're a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours. And something else we learned: Once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
“The doctor begins where the apothecary ends, and the clergyman where the doctor ends.”
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. V.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
Interview in Christianity Today, October 2006
“Happiness begins where selfishness ends.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court