Courage is fearlessness, or acting in spite of fear. The soldiers on D-Day were courageous, charging a bloody beach with men, friends, brothers, fathers, falling all around them, bullets whizzing past, machine guns tearing into people with no cover to hide themselves. Courage has always been honoured and is one of the greatest qualities a person can have.
Courage is standing up to danger, facing fear and strife without backing down, doing what you know is right when all odds are against you. It’s being brave, noble, Honorable, doing what you should and have to. Following your conscience in the face of death. It’s determination to do what’s good and just no matter what. That is courage. That is honorable. That is what to strive for.
Josiah Klaassen is courageous. He joined the PPCLI, Canada’s infantry Battalion and will soon be going to Iraq to fight for people he doesn’t know. That takes courage. That standing up for what is right in the face of danger or even death. He knows he might not come back. But he’s still going.
Courage means different things to different people including the dictionary. The dictionary says courage is acting in spite of fear. I agree. But I take it farther, courage is acting in spite of fear to do what’s right it’s not courageous if, in spite of fear of the law, you murder someone. That is evil and courage is noble. So strive for courage, strive for honour , strive for what is good and right.