From the Great Quotes file:
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation (and creation) there is one elemental truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves in too." –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Uhm Shell, The Wikipedia entry that you linked to says that the quotation you posted is NOT by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but was by William Hutchinson Murray.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hutchinson_Murray
April
“A quotation that begins ‘Until one is committed…,’ widely misattributed to Goethe, is by William Hutchinson Murray.”
Thanks for the catch, April. 🙂
I got the quote elsewhere and linked to the Goethe sketch at Wikipedia in order to give more information on Goethe. Looks like I gave Too Much Information. 😉
Anyway, it’s still a Great Quote, and now we know who really said it. 🙂
Well, it’s the kind of thin Goethe WOULD have said, if he had thought about it…
grrr… I’m reasonably certain that this reading this quote will result in about 90 minutes of tossing and turning in bed tonight… thanks a lot…
;->
Hey Brent,
Can you say ITI??
8^>