Mark Twain Quotes About Courage
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
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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.
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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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