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Success Quote by Alan Cohen

"The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through"

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A promise like this lands because it collapses the scariest gap in any ambitious plan: the space between inspiration and execution. Alan Cohen frames that gap as an illusion. If the idea arrived, the resources to complete it are already baked into the universe, or at least into your relationship with it. The wording does a lot of work: “the same Source” implies a single, trustworthy pipeline that handles both spark and follow-through, turning uncertainty into continuity. It’s spiritual language in business-casual clothing, designed to soothe the nervous system of someone staring at a bold goal and feeling under-equipped.

The subtext is a gentle rebuke of scarcity thinking. If you’re stuck, the problem isn’t the world’s limits but your failure to stay aligned with whatever “Source” represents: intuition, purpose, faith, a deeper self. That’s why the quote functions as permission. It invites you to act before you feel ready, because readiness is treated as something that arrives after commitment, not before it.

Context matters: in self-help and entrepreneurial culture, ideas are romanticized while logistics are brutal. Cohen offers a belief-based bridge that keeps people moving. It’s also strategically unfalsifiable. “Means” can be money, a mentor, a lucky break, a new skill, a change of plan; any outcome can be retrofitted as providence. That flexibility is the appeal and the risk: it can catalyze courage, but it can also replace planning with hope.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cohen, Alan. (2026, January 15). The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-same-source-that-gave-you-the-idea-will-give-162700/

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Cohen, Alan. "The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-same-source-that-gave-you-the-idea-will-give-162700/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-same-source-that-gave-you-the-idea-will-give-162700/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Alan Cohen (born October 5, 1954) is a Businessman from USA.

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