“Well begun is half done.”

“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!”
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet; sapere aude; incipe!

“Father, I scarcely dare to pray,
So clear I see, now it is done,
How I have wasted half my day,
And left my work but just begun.”

“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!”

“Well, who begun it?”

“Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our watch — yet it must be and it will be waged on our watch.”

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”

“If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”

“What we didn't do well during the second half was simply to keep the ball. We ran a lot after; we won a lot of balls and we couldn't calm the game down. There was a struggle that really went through the second half. We should've done better.”