Welcome to Starting Point Quotes, a curated collection of inspirational and thought-provoking quotes to kickstart your day, ignite your creativity, or provide guidance on your journey. Words have the power to uplift, motivate, and instill a sense of purpose, and here you’ll find a diverse array of quotes from various perspectives and fields.
Whether you’re seeking wisdom from ancient philosophers, encouragement from modern-day visionaries, or simply a fresh perspective on life’s challenges, Starting Point Quotes is your go-to destination. From profound insights to light-hearted musings, these quotes are here to accompany you through moments of reflection, decision-making, or simply a daily dose of inspiration.
Browse through our collection below, where you’ll find quotes on a wide range of topics including resilience, success, love, and personal growth. Feel free to copy them, pair them with images, or get creative with stylish fonts to make them your own. Let these quotes be the starting point for your journey towards a more fulfilling and purpose-driven life.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. W. Clement Stone
Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end… This journey has a goal, but it does not stop at any goal, for it has come to realise that today’s goal is only the starting point of tomorrow’s journey. Sri Chinmoy
I think that most things, if you want to use them properly, take quite a lot of time and I don’t necessarily have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow the first bits to actually get the starting point. John Torode
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Napoleon Hill
When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred. Karl Ove Knausgard
Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model. John Hull
Obama’s starting point was not as low as Manmohan Singh’s starting point, and Obama’s rise was not as sharp. Sanjaya Baru
That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it’s a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That’s my favorite. Shane McAnally
Talent is only the starting point. Irving Berlin
I was never drawn just into fashion. I was drawn into it because I am really interested in serving women and providing women with solutions, trying to figure out what we need and why we need that and why we wear stuff, how it makes us feel. That was always my starting point, you know. Stella McCartney
The starting point for English work must be the ability to handle effectively their own experience. Oral work, written work and the discussion of literature must create an atmosphere in which the pupils become confident of the full acceptability of the material of their own experience. Michael Rosen
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them. William H. McRaven
I Literally Just Told You’ is a game show about short-term memory and how bad it is. My starting point was that you can give contestants the answer to all of the questions and they will still get them wrong. It turned out to be true. It’s quite an absurd fast-moving game show. Richard Bacon
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production. Rudolf Hilferding
My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point. Anastasia Soare
As a pure source of reference, ‘Modernist Cuisine’ is incredibly helpful. It’s like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It’s not always the answer, but it’s always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it. Wylie Dufresne
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. Gary Becker
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. Lucian Freud
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods. Robin S. Sharma
The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind – as of every other kind – are most abundant for New England. Edmund Morgan
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise. Anne Fortier
If people can learn from my mistakes, or feel more of a sense of connection with what I’m saying because I’ve shown some vulnerability, then I think we’re at a better starting point. Randi Zuckerberg
It’s so easy to practice out of context. For example, if you’re learning a scale, you take that scale and you sit in your room and you go up and down the fretboard, over and over. You’ve gotta do that, because you need to get that scale working. But you have to keep in mind that that’s not the finished product. That’s the starting point. Paul Gilbert
If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn’t mean you find everything. It’s only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things. Erno Rubik
Working improvisationally in my studio with dancers, it’s completely different. We don’t have any starting point; we don’t have an end point. We don’t have anything we are trying to show or do. The picture evolves from nowhere. Lois Greenfield
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. Michael Behe
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint. Adolph Gottlieb
I realize the responsibility of being a starting point guard. Lou Williams
There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point. Estelle Morris
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point. Robert Collier
The Affordable Care Act was passed in large part because of recognition that our nation’s health care system is not working. The act is not perfect, but it is a starting point, and we have been using it to improve the health of Coloradans. John Hickenlooper
It’s my job, first and foremost, to take care of the football. Guys work their tails off. That’s Football 101. From the time you play youth ball to high school, college, pro, every level, that’s the starting point for every quarterback. You have to take care of the ball. Scott Tolzien
A great accomplishment shouldn’t be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward. Harvey Mackay
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. Daniel Bell
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. Janet Frame
The struggle isn’t just about being straight or gay or transgender – it’s a human struggle. That’s always really been my kind of starting point: If you’re out there and you’re odd, come over to my house. Boy George
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. Gao Xingjian
Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that’s a wonderful starting point. Melvyn Bragg
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change. Max Carver
The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch. Kygo
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge. C. V. Raman
Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me. Justin Guarini
I knew that I did not have to buy into society’s notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ‘spaceship’ and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again. Warren Mitchell
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill
The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. Jacques Ellul
Fortunately I have a good support network around me but am I sitting here and saying to myself: ‘Should every football club have a creche?’ Yes. I think that’s the starting point. Emma Hayes
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens – I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature – using books themselves as a starting point. Malorie Blackman
From the third grade, I knew that I wanted to play in the NFL. It’s pretty cool to see the dream about to come to fruition, but it’s just a starting point. Carson Wentz
You can write a script, but that’s just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story. Jeff Lemire
My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I’ve played that at every gig I’ve ever had. And that’s my starting point in the studio. Dan Hawkins
The loss of the American colonies was the first time the process of British empire building had been put significantly into reverse, and became the starting point for a nostalgic yearning for lost colonies – and the wealth and global influence that came with them – that has become part of our national psyche. David Olusoga
The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination. Chelsea Manning
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries. Ludwig Quidde
My dad made these dough balls and covered them up with a cloth in front of a gas fire, which was stuck on a wall. They were rising. In my head, I think they were the best rolls I’ve ever had. If there was a starting point for me, that was it. Paul Hollywood
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. John Henrik Clarke
Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it’s an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life. Nicholas Kristof
I’m passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… I’ve lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. John Galliano
I’m always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they’re not. I can’t choose any one scene and say, ‘Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!’ I just use little snippets of things as a starting point! Cecily von Ziegesar
The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. Paul Singer
Strategy is the starting point for a transformation that needs to occur and how that company must change to win. Lynne Doughtie
Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey. Azim Premji
When I left ‘American Morning’ in 2007, I’d focused on doing documentaries. But I thought ‘Starting Point’ was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist. Soledad O’Brien
Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point. Maurice Saatchi
Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination. Mike Quigley
The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was a defeated power. Despite the fine words and some limited gestures, the Americans have treated it like one. Their policy has been one of encirclement. Martin Jacques
I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it’s just sort of like a sweet starting point. Shiri Appleby
Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, ‘What are the facts in this case?’ he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause. Douglas Southall Freeman
The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just voicing the injustice empowers the movement and everybody else around them. Padmapriya Janakiraman
Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you’ve got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you’re doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It’s very important never, ever, to feel above that. Tom Stoppard
If you can’t even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that’s not a very good starting point. Rob Portman
I’d ask myself, ‘What do I think is really unjust?’ That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world. Chelsea Clinton
There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics. Richard P. Feynman
Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education. Yoshihiko Noda
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. John Dewey
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. Rudolf Hilferding
To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices. Bjorn Lomborg
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I’ll go from there. Patrick deWitt
As a scientist, the starting point is always the facts of the matter, whereas often, in politics, the starting point is how does this play in the next election. Bill Foster
When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers to discover and enjoy digital entertainment on their television. And our name changed to Rovi embodied the ability to be that homepage for consumer search through the TV. Alfred Amoroso
Shoes are a good starting point. I’ve become quite fussy about them! A patent pair of Sonia Rykiel oxfords have become invaluable. Jessica Raine
The Republican Party has to be the party of optimism and giving our children a better starting point. We have to make sure we’re broader, more inclusive, and reaching out to every community. Cory Gardner
I’ve spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that’s only the starting point. Steven Erikson
We don’t we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point? Newt Gingrich
That’s a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we – or can we – do with this lot of years with which we’re blessed? More than my other films, ‘The Danish Girl’ is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one’s self. Eddie Redmayne
If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write – and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy – I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war. J. M. G. Le Clezio
On ‘I’m A Celebrity’ it’s important to have chemistry and to have a friendship as a starting point you can grow from. Holly Willoughby
If you haven’t used Bitcoin first-hand, you may not get the inherent advantage of a quicker appreciation and understanding of its potential. Seeing assets move swiftly without intermediaries is an eye opening experience, and that is just a starting point. William Mougayar
Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible. Norman Davies
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. William Ames
If there’s no limit to how big the entropy can get, then you can start anywhere, and from that starting point, you’d expect entropy to rise as the system moves to explore larger and larger regions of phase space. Alan Guth
My starting point is always to read a script and have a conversation with the director about what their vision is, and then, after that, I love to do research. Ludwig Goransson
The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point. Martina Navratilova
The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It’s all working towards the same destination – the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I’m still taking the subway. James McBride
The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources. Daniel Yergin
I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let’s start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women. Gary Johnson
Dad often told me, ‘My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.’ That was my dad’s objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication. Lyle Lovett
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship – and not as ends in themselves. Francis Schaeffer
Control of the browser that people use to access the Web turned out to be far less meaningful than the search engine we use as the starting point for finding Web information. I switch between Safari, Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome browsers all day. I never stray from Google search. Glenn Kelman
My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection. Rei Kawakubo
