Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different actions or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

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"I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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"“If a mind thinks with a believing attitude, one can do amazing things.”"

- Norman Vincent Peale

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"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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""Change your thoughts, and you change your world.""

- Norman Vincent Peale

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

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"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

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"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

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