No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
Interpretation
Great accomplishments require us to embrace uncertainty and risk.
This quote emphasizes that significant actions, whether personal or societal, often come with doubts and a lack of absolute certainty. It highlights the importance of courage and willingness to act despite the unknown outcomes that may lie ahead.
In practice
This quote can inspire students who are hesitant to take risks in their personal projects.
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.
People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.
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