Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
Uesugi KenshinRead
Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.
Interpretation
Confidence leads to success and minimizes the scars of failure.
This quote by Uesugi Kenshin emphasizes the power of confidence in overcoming challenges. Approaching lifeβs battles with a strong belief in one's ability to succeed not only increases the chances of achieving one's goals but also protects one from unnecessary hardships or failures, symbolized by 'wounds'.
In practice
During a motivational speech to instill confidence in students.
Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.
When you hear anyone policing the bodies of trans women, misgendering and othering us, and violently exiling us from spaces, you should not dismiss it as a trans issue that trans women should speak out against. You should be engaged in the dialogue, discourse, and activism that challenges the very fibers of your movement.
My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,' he said. 'At least I'll be killed alone.'
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