125 Halfway There Quotes

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Famous Halfway There Quotes

A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Zig Ziglar

A goal properly set is halfway reached. — Zig Ziglar

Well begun is half done. — Aristotle

Believe you can and you're halfway there. — Theodore Roosevelt

A well begun is half ended. — Plato

Life is half spent before we know what it is. — George Herbert

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. — Horace

Life is half spent before one knows what it is. — Proverbs

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. — Orlando A. Battista

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental. — Jim McKenny

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full. — Diane Keaton

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting. — Confucius

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. — Kahlil Gibran

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. - Napoleon Hill

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. — Napoleon Hill

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. — David Ambrose

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. — Emily Bronte

Short Halfway There Quotes

  • Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting. — Peter Dobereiner
  • Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half. — Paul Bryant
  • It's impossible to get to the end if you quit in the middle. — Christine Caine
  • Courage in danger is half the battle. — Plautus
  • A half truth is a whole lie. — Yiddish Proverbs
  • To the good listener, half a word is enough. — Danish Proverbs
  • You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle — Joyce Meyer
  • Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful. — Susan Estrich
  • Step by step walk the thousand-mile road. — Miyamoto Musashi
  • Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half. — Talib Kweli

Halfway There Image Quotes

Halfway there quote We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming.
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming.

You Are Halfway There Quotes

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things. — T. D. Jakes

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there. — Frances Hesselbein

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there — Theodore Roosevelt

Halfway there quote Believe you can and you are halfway there
Believe you can and you are halfway there

Begin, and you are halfway there. — Alfred Armand Montapert

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there! — Don Ward

With moviemaking, you can be halfway around the world for six months. So there are amazing benefits to doing TV, and with the platform change and the way it is, I would never ever rule out doing TV again. — Chris Pratt

Halfway To Go Quotes

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. — Sigmund Freud

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous. — John Bonham

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever. — Lao Tzu

Halfway there quote Believe you can and you're halfway there
Believe you can and you're halfway there

As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness. — Jessica Lange

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. — Barbara Hepworth

If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge. — Gary McCord

Halfway there quote A goal properly set is halfway reached.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo. — Maria V. Snyder

I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing. — Steve Coogan

When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy. — Richard Diebenkorn

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion. — Fiona Shaw

Doing Things Halfway Quotes

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there. — James McAvoy

I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on. — Courteney Cox

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size. — Sayings

Halfway there quote Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The most relaxing thing i do, hang halfway out a 3rd floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out. Well maybe i'll fall hard, something tough to break me, something sharp to rip into my insides and bleed out all that pain. — Al Kaline

God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm. — Joyce Meyer

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness. — Franco Harris

Halfway there quote Believe you can and youre halfway there!
Believe you can and youre halfway there!

I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already. — Brian d'Arcy James

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that. — Marion Bartoli

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough. — Sayings

Halfway Quotes

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. — Winston Churchill

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already. — Norman Vincent Peale

I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled! — James Goldman

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. — Bernard Avishai

At the moment, most of the data on our gut microbiome is fairly generic, even if you don’t do the personalisation, you’re probably halfway there. — Tim Spector

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life. — Pete Townshend

If your wearing lingerie that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway thereto turning heads. — Elle Macpherson

I’ve seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them. — Lee Strobel

There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in. — Mordecai Ham

Half Way Quotes

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. — Amartya Sen

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. — Charles Spurgeon

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship. — Clement Attlee

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through. — Vine Deloria Jr.

I was stuck in traffic for four hours on the way up and three and a half hours on the way down. — Nirmal Purja

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots. — Mark Twain

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal. — Zeno of Elea

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say. — Karl Shapiro

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out. — T.I.

An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes. — Patricia L. Fry

Half-way Quotes

We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's what they've been doing the last year and a half, getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet. — Kristi Noem

At night if I'm in a hurry, I'll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It's a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half. — Brooke Burns

I am aware of no other time management technique that’s half as effective as just facing the way things truly are. — Oliver Burkeman

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink — Ville Valo

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half. — Franz Kline

To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home. — Stan Lee

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American. — Gabriel Iglesias

The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass. — Frederic Ozanam

In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women" — Maria Mitchell

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer. — A. E. Housman

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More Halfway There Quotes

It’s time to stop listening to what everyone else says about you, telling you what to do, how to act, how you should feel. Let them judge you by your results, and nothing else; it’s none of their business how you get where you’re going. If you’re relentless, there is no halfway, no could or should or maybe. — Tim Grover

One day I locked my keys in my car and as I was standing there with a hanger halfway through the top of my window, a guy walks up and says, Lock yer keys in the car? Without missin' a beat I said, Nope, Just washed it and was hanging it up to dry. Here's your sign. — Bill Engvall

There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day after day. It's the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut halfway through. — Chris Boardman

Touch your customer, and you’re halfway there. — Estee Lauder

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try. — Tim Winton

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after. — James Dobson

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be. — Eddie Van Halen

I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me. — Tony Bennett

You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room. If you send a rocket to the moon, about ninety percent of the time it’s off course—it ‘fails’ its way to the moon by continually making mistakes and correcting them. — Price Pritchett

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. — Michael Pollan

We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings. — Mark Helprin

There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally. — Abraham Foxman

I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in. — Chic Murray

This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself. — Shel Silverstein

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there. — Lennox Lewis

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there. — David Zucker

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there. — Janis Ian

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it. — Brandi Carlile

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely — Jackson Pollock

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. — Eugene Ionesco

One thing that I don’t know if people have come to grips with yet is just how serious ISIS is, just how serious militant Islamists are about Sharia. There is no compromise. There is no halfway. There is no mutual cohabitation plan. — Rush Limbaugh

When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny. — Tina Fey

The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there? — Roger Ebert

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there. — Alan Vega

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there. — Ian Holm

Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.' — Shantideva

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra. — Howard Keel

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there. — Ozzy Osbourne

I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue. — Edmund White

I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right? — Colleen Haskell

In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.' — Clint Eastwood

There was one sequence of days [making Lincoln in the Bardo] when I had halfway decided to use the historical nuggets, but I wasn't quite sure it would work. I'd be in my room for six or seven hours, cutting up bits of paper with quotes and arranging them on the floor, with this little voice in my head saying, "Hey, this isn't writing!" But at the end of that day, I felt that the resulting section was doing important emotional work — George Saunders

If I'm halfway to the dream, at best, half of my resources are there. Your resources to fulfill the dream will come during the last step of the dream. — John C. Maxwell

When I came on board, it was halfway through his [Frank Sinatra] 72nd year, and when he did his last show he was gaining on 80. He knew it, the audience knew it, and there was never any attempt to conceal such a thing. His vision wasn't what it had once been. His hearing wasn't. His memory was fading. He knew these things. He was very much in need of help, and I was so happy to be able, in a small way, to render that help. — Frank Sinatra, Jr.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling. — Babatunde Adebimpe

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