Commitment
Until there is commitment 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 commits one's self then Providence moves
too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have
occurred. A whole stream of events issue
from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents
and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would
have come his way. I have learned a
deep respect of one of Goethe's couplets:
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magick in
it.”
-W.H. Murray in the Scottish Himalayan Expedition