• I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Source: Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

  Nelson Mandela
  South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader 1918-2013
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. conquers
2. courage
3. absence
4. triumph
5. afraid

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I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. by : Nelson Mandela

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