Courage Quote by Alice James Download Open image “Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?” — Alice James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Courage Courage Unhappy People Strange Strange people Unhappiness Unhappy Unhappy Unhappy Unhappy Way Way
Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A lot of people end up unhappy because they seek happiness in others instead of being happy with themselves. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. — Alice James Copy Share Image
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the… — Alice James Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. — Alice James Copy Share Image
“The paralytic on his couch can have if he wants them wider experiences than Stanley slaughtering the savages, the two roomed cottage may enclose… — Alice James Copy Share Image
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four… — Alice James Copy Share Image
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. — Alice James Copy Share Image
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. — Alice James Copy Share Image
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“It takes tremendous courage, persistence, and perseverance to pursue your ultimate purpose.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man is ever… — Inazo Nitobe Copy Share Image
When you heed the calling of your heart, you are following your purpose. Having purpose in your life gives you the courage to do… — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“There is nothing purer, braver, or more beautiful than the try.” — Kristen Armstrong Copy Share Image