Quotes About Boldness

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?

Só às crianças e aos loucos perdoamos que sejam francos connosco: os outros, caso tenham a audácia de os imitar, arrepender-se-ão mais cedo ou mais tarde de o terem feito.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

It was Raffles I loved. It was not the dark life we led together, still less its base rewards; it was the man himself, his gayety, his humor, his dazzling audacity, his incomparable courage and resource. And a very horror of turning to him again in mere need of greed set the seal on my first angry resolution. But the anger was soon gone out of me, and when at length Raffles bridged the gap by coming to me, I rose to greet him almost with a shout.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

Innovation can't happen without accepting the risk that it might fail.

Lyle Schaller asserted, "The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth is to say, 'It ain't workin'.'"6

Because God is in control and will redeem all things, I can be calm, bold, and gracious as I share the gospel.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

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I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad.

How over that same door was likewise writ,Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold.

I had no fear of drowning in the water—I intended to drink it all.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

A Gy wears wings habitually when yet a virgin—she joins the Ana in their aerial sports—she adventures alone and afar into the wilder regions of the sunless world: in the boldness and height of her soarings, not less than in the grace of her movements, she excels the opposite sex. But, from the day of her marriage she wears wings no more, she suspends them with her own willing hand over the nuptial couch, never to be resumed unless the marriage tie be severed by divorce or death.

Take it off, take it all off.

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.

You know you're a skydiver when you try to convince the flight attendant on a commercial flight that you really would be much more comfortable sitting on the floor.

Better dead sure than sure dead.