"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." ― Mark Twain Topic(s): Courage Tags: courage, resistance More From Mark Twain "Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run." "To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble." "I’ve never let my school interfere with my education." More In Courage "It’s amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood."― Nicolas Cage "It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can’t do because we feed ourselves so much denial."― Zoe Saldana "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’"― Eleanor Roosevelt