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Mark Twain Quotes about Courage

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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Inspirational, Life, Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Courage, Fear, Cancer

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Courage, Believe, Bravery

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Change, Loyalty, Courage

Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Courage, Brave Person, Bravery

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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, Ignorance, Brave

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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