Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or a mistake. But you're not supposed to question the 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 and where you come from. Didn't at least one of the 600 guys think about giving up and joining the other side? I mean, Valley of Death, that's pretty salty stuff. That's why courage is 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 you need to 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 both have honor and courage. And that's partly good. I think that's 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, The Blind Side