Halfway Quotes

• A goal properly set is halfway reached.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 02, 2014

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• Believe you can and you're halfway there.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Dream, Moving, Long

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• A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Climbing, Views

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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• If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sight, Would Be, Faces

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• Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Halfway There, Can Do

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

  Bob Beamon

  Excellence

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• Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Bridges

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• The summit is just a halfway point.

  Ed Viesturs

  Climbing, Summit

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

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Want Something, World, Over The Top

  "Over the Top". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• 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

  Fall, Law, Ideas

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• 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

  Halfway There, Decision, Challenges

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

  Dan Millman

  Future, Feet, Use

  Dan Millman (2004). “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, p.70, H J Kramer

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• That's why I'm such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what's gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending.

  Michael Douglas

  Sports, Fans, Kind

  "Michael Douglas on ‘Ant-Man’, Returning for the Sequel, Remembering ‘The Game’". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 11, 2015.

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• I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It started out to be a small, lighthearted, humorous book about family relationships; I was tired of writing war stories and tragedies.

  Elizabeth Crook

  War, Humorous, Book

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Believe and you're halfway there.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Halfway There

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• 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

  Mistake, Moon, Cake

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• Halfway measures are not enough.

  Sarah Brady

  Enough

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• The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Distance, Men, Judging

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• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

  Plutarch

  Life, Success, Courage

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• Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Literature, Cowardice

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• 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

  Selfish, Halfway There, Doing You

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• Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

  Georg Buchner

  Revolution, Graves, Half Way

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mistake, Failure, Positive Thinking

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.10.

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