Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
Interpretation
Courage is about facing challenges with equal resolve and determination.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes that true courage lies in our ability to confront the problems we face with a balanced and equal mindset. Rather than being overwhelmed by fear or anxiety, we should strive to meet challenges head-on, viewing them with strength and resolve, which allows us to grow and overcome adversity.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech to inspire people to face their fears.
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?
I did not seek to sell U.S. secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.
The Western media has depicted the Afghan woman as a helpless, weak individual. I have said it before, and I shall repeat it: The Afghan woman is strong. The Afghan woman is resourceful. The Afghan woman is resilient.
If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going.
I wished I died in that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died at that time so I won't suffer like that anymore... it was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness.
You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're making something really diluted. And if you do that when you're a guy, you're seen as artistic - 'difficulty' is seen as a sign of genius. But it's not the same for women.
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