What defines courage?

To stand up against authority
or to fight for what you always believe in?

To admit the mistake
or to deny and deny and deceive yourself?

Mark Twain once said, courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Courage shouldn't be an one time affair or display. We encounter the need to be courageous in our daily life. It ought to be a habit. Admitting it is your fault when it really is, admitting your ignorance when you are truly unaware of the fact. Maybe lying through your teeth is courage, but that's not something glorious or should be glorified.

To defy may not be courageous, you could be reckless and glory-seeking instead. To defy could be used to command attention to cure your attention deficiency; but there is no panacea.

Courage is not just bravery. It is not just perseverance. It should be a refreshing cocktail mix of these two, if not more.

So seriously, you tell me that is courage? Come on, try harder.