"Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears."

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"Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears."

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"Begin when you have the strength. You have it now, therefore the best time to begin is now."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions, they never walk alone!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Do it or not, but do."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"But it is not always the people who say most who do most."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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Explore more quotes by Barbara Deming

"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out."

Act

"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."

Heart

"The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions."

Life

"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."

People

"I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive."

Vision

"Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide."

Change

"Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences."

Action

"We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power."

Power

"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."

Love

"Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us."

Man