DEFINING COURAGE
BY
PETER M. I. PETERS
Courage is one of the most essential components needed to succeed in life. Before there can be any moving forward, development or increase a courageous step most be taken. Courage can be described as facing danger with confidence and determination, frequently with disregard for one’s own personal safety. Courage is most notably displayed in difficult moments and other times of adversity.
It can also be referred to as a mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but doing what you are afraid to do. This piece is intended to draw emphasis on the importance of courage in order to succeed. You need courage to take decisions and actions that would move you forward in life.
– It takes courage to stand up for your rights
– You need courage to support unpopular causes.
– There has to be mental or moral strength (courage) to resist opposition, danger, or hardship. Courage implies firmness of mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty
– Courage suggests an ingrained capacity for meeting strain or difficulty with fortitude and resilience.
– It also suggests a quality of temperament enabling one to hold one’s own or keep up one’s morale when opposed or threatened – with courage, one cannot be broken by failure or opposition.
– Courage stresses firm determination to achieve one’s ends. Don’t worry, when you are doing your best; just stay focus.
– Courage is implications of stubborn persistence and unwillingness to admit defeat.
When you try to avoid failure at all costs, you never learn, and you end up repeating the same mistakes over and over. Those who are willing to learn from their failures don’t have to keep repeating them. Author William Saroyan observed, “We get very little wisdom from success. Learn from science. In science, mistakes always precede the discovery of truth”.
Whatever it is, if you can think it or imagine it you can do it. There is nothing that is impossible or too difficult. Don’t give or get discourage because someone told you that what you are about to do can’t be done. Be ware of the so called ‘Experts’. Sometimes what they present as wisdom is just short-sightedness. In 1895, Lord Kelvin, president of England’s Royal Society, said, “Heavier-than-air flying machines are not possible”. In 1923 Nobel Prize winner in physics Robert Millikan said, “There’s no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. When you become passionate about anything, you can get it done. Winston Churchill rallied blitzed, beleaguered Britain from the edge of defeat with these memorable words: “Never give up! Never give up! Never, never, never, give up!
