Courage gives one strength, power, and endurance to overcome or surmount obstacles, weaknesses, hardships, and crises. Courage is associated with bravery, valor, and heroism. Bravery implies fearlessness in the face of danger, but courage may be shown in spite of fear. Valor defies danger. Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of the heart and soul.
Courage is habitual, contagious.
We become brave by doing brave acts, Aristotle reminds us. The hand that held back the sea was numb, but the boy hugged the dog with his free arm. Luther King, Jr. Nurture your minds with great thoughts. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.