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Caesar repeats the line at the feast before the assassination, using it to stir the conspirators on. The phrase has been quoted ever since for the moment when a decision to act becomes irreversible.
Source: Julius Caesar, Act 2 Scene 2
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.