Positive Energy English Motto Day07

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

"You don't have to start with greatness, but you have to start to be great."

Hello everyone

Today's sentence consists of a comparative sentence.

You don’t have to be great to start.

But you have to start to be great.

This sentence is relatively simple.

you don’t have to be great to start.

How to understand this sentence?

First of all, here we need to know a fixed collocation called have to.

have to do something ，

Something has to be done, something has to be done.

It means that this kind of thing is not subject to one's own will.

So, we can understand it like this:

You don't have to be nice in the beginning.

Or you don't need to start with greatness.

The second sentence

There's a saying here called start to do something.

Start doing something

所以start to be great.

We can understand it as "starting to get better".

We connect the two sentences together:

We don't have to start with getting better, we should start getting better.

When doing something,

It's not very important to start yourself,

But the process and the effort put into it is very important.

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