A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Interpretation
Healthy anger can inspire us to harness our full potential.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that feeling a righteous indignation can be a powerful motivator for individuals. When we encounter injustice or wrongdoings, this intense emotional response can awaken our inner strengths and capabilities, driving us to action and encouraging us to stand up for what we believe in.
In practice
In a speech about social justice, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, a good indignation brings out all one's powers to advocate for change.'
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?
An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
You donβt have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.
I went into boxing, and I'm bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible.
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