A Quote by Polybius

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

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Polybius
Greek - Historian
203 BC - 120 BC

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.

John Keats

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

Plato

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

Soren Kierkegaard

What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.

Maurice Blanchot

I am straight forward; I am not manipulative; I am not two-faced. And I think that that has served me well in all of my roles, particularly as a diplomat, because people knew if I said something, I meant it. If I said no, I meant no, and if I said we could make this work, we would make it work.

Susan Rice

What's well begun is half done.

Horace

Well begun is half done.

Aristotle

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

Austin O'Malley

A work well begun is half-ended.

Plato

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

Horace

We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.

Joan Didion

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

Meredith Vieira

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

John Steinbeck

When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

Usain Bolt

When I was younger I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

Usain Bolt

"So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."

Sarah Dessen

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