72. Be resolute #TAOWW
Be resolute. Bad execution of your designs does less harm than irresolution in forming them. Streams do less harm flowing than when dammed up. There are some people so infirm of purpose that they always require direction from others, and this not on account of any perplexity, for they judge clearly, but from sheer incapacity for action. It takes some skill to find out difficulties but more to find a way out of them. There are others who never get bogged down; their clear judgment and determined character fit them for the highest callings, their intelligence tells them where to insert the thin end of the wedge, their resolution how to drive it home. They soon get through anything, and when they have done with one sphere of action, they are ready for another. Wedded to fortune, they make themselves sure of success.
THE ART OF WORLDLY WISDOM BY BALTHASAR GRACIAN
TRANSLATED BY JOSEPH JACOBS 1892