хорошее начало полдела откачало

"Хорошее начало полдела откачало" is a Russian folk idiom that encourages one to get a quick start in projects!

Translated nearly word-for-word, it should sound like "[a] good start [is a] half-job pumped/done":

• "a" is implied in Russian
• хорошее (khorosheye) = "good"
• начало (nachalo) = "start"
• "is a" is implied in Russian
• полдела (poldela) = "half-job"
  • пол = "half"
  • дела = "job"
• откачало (otkachalo) = "pumped" (or just "done")

More loose translations would go something like:

"Getting started is half the battle!"

or

"A good start already provides half the work!"

Oftentimes, many things remain undone because the "good start" doesn't provide the catalyst to make things happen!