Well Begun Is Half Done Quotes

#1. Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.

Orrin Woodward

#2. What's well begun is half done.

Horace

#3. The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended.

Henry Van Dyke

#4. There is an old saying "well begun is half done" - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, "Not begun at all till half done;" so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.

John Keats

#5. It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.

James Patterson

#6. I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

Sarah Dessen

#7. When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.

Polybius

#8. But I also want kids who suffer from bullying to know that you can be whoever you want to be in life, including a professional boxer, that anything is possible and that who you are or whom you love should not be impediment to achieving anything in life.

Orlando Cruz

#9. Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.

Horace

#10. My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Sara Zarr

#11. If she[ ... ] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun?

Annie Dillard

#12. Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Fritz Kreisler

#13. For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.

Nas

#14. The journey to the grave is already begun, the journey to corruption is, always, already, half over.

James Baldwin

#15. I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.

Fiona Maazel

#16. He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!

Horace

#17. After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

Valerie Bertinelli

#18. I have begun to wonder what actually happens in our brains when we return to half-remembered places. What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once intimately known?

Siri Hustvedt

#19. They say well begun half done; but Perseverance on the way down takes you up to a great end.

Vikrmn

#20. You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

Hermann Hesse

#21. No," Ray says. "He's getting paid in magic beans. Of course he's getting real money!

Wendy Mass

#22. A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and
get under way.

Soren Kierkegaard

#23. Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").

Horace

#24. I was changed by Nathan's death, because I had to be. Our life together here was over. It was my life alone that had to go on. The strand had slackened. I had begun the half-a-life you have when you have a whole life that you can only remember.

Wendell Berry

#25. It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

Aleister Crowley

#26. Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

Eugene Grace

#27. Don't get ideas. That boy's behind won't mount a bike, precious. He might blow one up in a military exercise, but he's not gonna ride alongside you while you mosey into town and pick up salad fixin's for dinner.

Kristen Ashley

#28. To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

Horace

#29. Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Horace Walpole

#30. As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

Plato

#31. A well begun is half ended.

A. C. Benson

#32. Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

Austin O'Malley

#33. A work well begun is half-ended.

Plato