BG 2.41

व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन। बहुशाखा ह्यनन्ताश्च बुद्धयोऽव्यवसायिनाम्॥

vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana / bahu-śākhā hy anantāś ca buddhayo 'vyavasāyinām

"The resolved mind is one. The unresolved mind branches endlessly — and arrives nowhere."

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3 translations · all pre-1928 or released to public domain · sources

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]
Here, O Arjuna, there is only one resolve of a firm intelligence; but many-branched and endless are the resolves of the irresolute.

Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)

[7]
The mind of those who have resolved is one; the minds of those who have not are many-branched and endless.

K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)

[9]
The mind which is of the nature of a firm determination is single in this world, O Arjuna; but the thoughts of the irresolute are many-branching and endless.