Quoted in K. Patrick Malone, Inside a Haunted Mind (2008) p. 167
“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
Source: The Princess Diaries
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“The brave may not live forever – But the cautious do not live at all”
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“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”
Foreword to Prisoners of our Thoughts : Viktor Frankl's Principles at Work (2004), by Alex Pattakos, p. x
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“Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

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