Importance Of Courage

As stated by Winston Churchill “courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen”. Throughout history, people have been inspired by major historical figures, such as Hercules or Achilles. The common point among these important figures is the fact that they all seem to possess one of the most important virtues which is the virtue of courage. “The courage”, a virtue that we usually define as the absence of fear or the ability to make the right decision against all odds, and the moral strength. This is why I am going to be focusing on which aspect of live the virtue of courage has come in place. First, the virtue of courage defined as the absence of fear. People admire those who throughout …show more content…
It is clear that nowadays the challenges faced in our lives due to the high requirement of society put each one of us to a position where we will be facing the dilemma of respecting our fundamental values or not, and this is where the virtue of courage come in place. Nevertheless, before talking about the role of the virtue of courage in our lives, I will be laying some important values that have set up the base of our fundamental rights. These important values are the respect, the honesty, the loyalty, and so on … I honestly think that nowadays making the choice of respecting or adhering the concept of our fundamental rights is a courageous act. In a world filled with wickedness, carnage, and an unbelievable desire for money, and power make those who want to live the right way victims. Even the value of life has been denigrated to a point where we become senseless when seeing countless of people dying. The major problem of our world is the fact that we have lost the notion of what is right and what is wrong, just like we have lost the courage to stand for what is good. The willingness of standing for the values that have set up our fundamental rights is a courageous act. As a society we are very proud of our accomplishment, but we tend to forget that for each accomplishment made we had to pay a price, and we had to have the strength to pay that price. The strength that we had to produce is not a physical strength, in contrary, it was a mental strength. The mental strength to stand for the