It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.
There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.
An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.
When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.
Well begun is half done.
What's well begun is half done.
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!
The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
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.
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.