Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
Interpretation
Courage is essential in any endeavor, as there will always be critics and naysayers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of courage in taking any action or pursuing any path in life. Regardless of the choices you make, there will always be people who challenge and criticize your decisions, and it is vital to have the bravery to stand firm in your convictions and continue forward despite opposition.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing your dreams despite obstacles.
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?
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.
When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our country's ultimate symbol of freedom - because I believe it is my responsibility, just as it is yours, to ensure that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country.
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.
God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash _x000D_ a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past
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