"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." ― Mark Twain Topic(s): Courage Tags: courage, resistance More From Mark Twain "All generalizations are false, including this one." "It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling." "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." More In Courage "Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."― Thornton Wilder "To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light."― Coventry Patmore "The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark."― Pam Brown