Nelson Mandela: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
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- From the book Long Walk to Freedom, 1995
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- Courage happens when your spirit leads your emotions to direct your body to take action to do what needs to be done in the face of fear.
- When you face your fear you grace your faith.
- Everything in life that is worth wanting will require you taking a risk to get it.
- The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.