What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
As reported by Quoteinvestigator on January 11, 2011 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/01/11/what-lies-within/ the quote appeared in “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940) by Wall Street trader Henry Stanley Haskins, "a Wall Street trader with a checkered background. The phrase was misattributed because the true author's name was initially withheld. In addition, the assignment of the maxim to a more prestigious individual, e.g., Emerson or Thoreau, made it more attractive and more believable as a nugget of wisdom." Emerson made a number of similar statements — in "The American Scholar," for example, he says "Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds" — which probably increased the likelihood of misattribution.
Misattributed
Вариант: What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Вариант: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
„То, что позади нас, и то, что впереди нас значит так мало по сравнению с тем, что внутри нас.“
„Всё пустяки в сравнении с вечностью.“
„Хорошее начало не мелочь, хотя и начинается с мелочи.“
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