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Posted by Kimmy Sophia Brown
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Mountaineer, William Hutchinson Murray, (1913-1996), wrote Mountaineering
in Scotland while in a German POW camp during World War II. Later
he wrote Undiscovered Scotland and The Scottish Himalaya
Expedition. The quote below is from that work.
But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important
matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of
our ruts. We had put down our passage money--booked a sailing to Bombay.
This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. 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, the
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!
Image(s) from Wikimedia Commons
