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?
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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