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The proverb comes from woodworking, where an oak is felled with repeated small cuts rather than one great blow. Its use in general speech keeps the image and keeps the implication that the tool, not the will, is what matters.
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.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
The harder you fight for something, the greater you feel when you achieve it.