"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."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

Fear, Successful, Action, Cause

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"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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"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."

Ron Chernow, American Author

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"The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."

Babe Ruth, American Athlete

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"Fear stagnation, embrace change."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Fear not failure but success."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."

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"One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is."

Experience

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

Imagination

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."

Success

"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once."

Baby

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."

Problems

"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."

Error

"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex."

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"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind."

Life

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

Criticism

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

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