I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
In plain words
Brave people still feel scared. They just do not let it win.
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Long Walk to Freedom (1995), his autobiography — one of his most famous and reliably documented lines.
- 1995
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