courage is not the exemption of fear, it is the ability to conqure that fear

The opposite of fear is courage. Courage is the ability to face and overcome fear, often by taking action in spite of it.

Courage Is Fear - 2010 was released on:

USA: April 2010

First, I think that we should rewrite this quote with better punctuations to make it easier to understand:

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." (Mark Twain)

I think that "Courage is resistance to fear" means that it is sort of an antagonist to fear. That's pretty straight forward...

Then, "mastery of fear - not absence of fear" probably means that someone with courage will still have fear; it doesn't mean that he won't have or feel any fear, however he will use his courage to "master", control, and/or manage the fear and get passed it.

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