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?
My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.
I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.
It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.
There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.
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