Proverbs:

A bad beginning makes a good ending.
German
A beginner is always a good man.
Martial
A good beginning is half the work.
German
A good beginning makes a bad ending.
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All beginnings are easy, said the ragpicker.
German
All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil.
Dutch
Begin in time to finish without hurry.
German
Beginning and ending shake hands.
German
Begun is half done.
German
Better not begin than not end.
German
Everything must have a beginning.
French
For a web begun God sends thread.
French
From small beginnings come great things.
Dutch
Good to begin well, better to end well.
*
He is not done who is beginning.
French
He is half done who has made a beginning.
Horace
He who begins and does not finish loses his labor.
French
He who begins badly ends badly.
Spanish
He who begins much finishes little.
German
If you know the beginning well the end will not trouble you.
Africa
If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
Publius Syrus
Ill begun ill done.
Dutch
It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.
*
Mischief lurks in the beginning, a good beginning is half the task.
Euripides
No beginnings of things however small are to be neglected because continuance makes them great.
Plutarch
Right beginning makes right ending.
German
So begun, so done.
Dutch
Some think they are done when they are only beginning.
French
The beginning and the end are seldom alike.
German
The beginning and the end extend hands to each other.
German
The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold.
German
The beginning is half the whole.
Hesiod
The beginning is no masterpiece.
German
The beginning of excellence is to be free from error.
Quintillian
The beginning of the dollar is the bank shilling.
German
The golden rule in life is “make a beginning.”
*
The merit belongs to the beginner should his successor do even better.
Egyptian
To men who would be fortunate the beginning is everything.
Don Quixote
Well begun is half done.
French
What raging rashly is begun, challengeth shame before half done.
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Who begins amiss ends amiss.
German
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German
Everything is difficult at first.
Chinese
Proverbs theme "Beginning" in English
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