内省の終わり／End of Self-Reflection
“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.”
“Lose this day loitering; t’will be the same old story tomorrow, and the next day more dilatory … Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting o’er lost days … What you can do or think you can, begin it–boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
That sums up several days of self-reflection and discovery.
There’s another quotation I liked very much from a book I’ve read (but I have forgotten the title and the author), which is more compact, but also sums it up pretty well.
“Fortune favors the bold. I propose to be bold.”