“Fortune favors the bold.”
— Publius Vergilius Maro
Aeneid, Book X, line 284. Spoken by the warrior Turnus as he charges into battle against the Trojans landing in Italy, composed around 25 BCE.
I wrote that line for a man about to die. Turnus knew the gods were against him and attacked anyway. I spent eleven years on the Aeneid and never finished it. On my deathbed I asked them to burn it. They refused, and the line outlived me. If you are waiting for certainty before you act, you will wait forever. Move while you are still afraid.