Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Interpretation
Courage involves recognizing that something is more significant than the fear you feel.
This quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes that true courage is not about being fearless, but rather about prioritizing values, goals, or duties that hold greater importance than the fear one may experience. It suggests that facing fears is an integral part of making decisions and taking action in life, as long as one is grounded in purpose.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech to inspire people facing their fears.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.
I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.
Just know that all the pain that I've been through, it made me strong.
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