Not long ago, a young friend wrote me saying something like this…
“Hi Tony, I wanted to share a quote with you.”
“You’re probably already familiar with it, but, in case you’re not, I think you’ll like it because it’s similar to one of your favorite quotes by Wallace D. Wattles.”
“Here it is:”
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”
“I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:”
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
I was already familiar with this quote by W. H. Murray (William Hutchinson Murray, 1913-1996) from his 1951 book entitled “The Scottish Himalayan Expedition”, but, until my young friend’s email, I’d long forgotten just how good it was.
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