All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
Interpretation
Great achievements often come with significant challenges, and facing these challenges requires bravery.
This quote by William Bradford emphasizes that to achieve great and honorable actions, one must confront and navigate through substantial difficulties. Overcoming these obstacles is intrinsic to the act of valor itself, suggesting that courage is not just about facing fears but also about committing to the pursuit of meaningful goals despite potential hardships.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students about the challenges ahead.
Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together.
As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.
The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.
Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.
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