Always do what you are afraid to do.
Interpretation
Embrace your fears and take action despite them.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson encourages individuals to confront their fears rather than avoid them. By taking action against what frightens us, we grow stronger and expand our potential, ultimately leading to personal development and empowerment.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech to encourage people to step out of their comfort zones.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence.
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.
People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
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