“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.”
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
Context: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Foreword to Prisoners of our Thoughts : Viktor Frankl's Principles at Work (2004), by Alex Pattakos, p. x
This statement has also been attributed to James Neil Hollingsworth (AKA: Ambrose Redmoon) in an article entitled "No Peaceful Warriors!" for Gnosis Magazine #21, in 1991.
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.”
Pat Riley (1945) American basketball player, coach, executive
James Neil Hollingworth (1933–1996) talent manager
Quoted in K. Patrick Malone, Inside a Haunted Mind (2008) p. 167
“Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
Michael Crichton book The Lost World
Source: The Lost World
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Carl Sagan book Cosmos
Martin Rees — Sagan refers to this quote in The Demon-Haunted World (1995) (see above)
Misattributed
Source: Cosmos
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Misattributed
Source: In the Woods
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Martin J. Rees (1942) cosmologist, astrophysicist, Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, President of the Royal Society
As quoted in Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life (1971) http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730010095_1973010095.pdf by Bernard M. Oliver, and John Billingham, Ch. 2 : Life in the Universe, p. 3 ; this has frequently misattributed to Carl Sagan, who quoted it in some of his presentations.