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Charles de Gaulle

"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."

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"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."

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"Courage doesn't defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear."

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"We can't continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition."

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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."

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"Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words."

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"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."

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"There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action."

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"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"

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"While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!"

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"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction."

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