Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a
dumb idea or mistake, but you're not supposed to question
adults, or your coach or your teacher, because they make the rules.
Maybe they know best, but maybe they don't. It all depends on
who you are, where you come from. Didn't at least one of the
six hundred guys think about giving up, and joining with the other
side? I mean, valley of death that's pretty salty stuff.
That's why courage it's tricky. Should you always do what
others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why
you're doing something. I mean any fool can have courage. But
honor, that's the real reason for you either do something or
you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be.
If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor
and courage, and that's pretty good. I think that's what
the writer was saying, that you should hope for courage and try for
honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do
have some, too.
~Michael Oher