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 action 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.""

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"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

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"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

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"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

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"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

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