Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Published on March 9, 2016 , under Quotes
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Source: Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Chapter 12 (1894).

Complete Sentence: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! — incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear

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