The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Sydney Smith
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This is a profound saying on the power of action and persistence. To do anything worth doing, we must not stand and think about the difficulty and the difficulties, but we must jump in and scramble along as we can. If we do not, we cannot succeed. The moral of the story: If we do not take action, we will never get anywhere.

Source: Dictionary Of Burning Words Of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia Of Quotations, From The Literature Of All Ages

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