Quotes About Courage

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

To be strong is to be happy!

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.