Permalink: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The line circulates in translations of his wartime letters and in his book Citadelle, where the argument is about how a group turns an intention into a programme. It is the standard correction applied to ambition that has no schedule.
Quotes that share a topic with this one.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
It is not what you know that matters, but what you do with what you know.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
He who has the courage to do wrong is the one who is afraid of nothing.