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?
Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.
If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me.
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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