Quotes About Boldness

Daddy was fun-loving and lighthearted - he lived life to the fullest and was not scared to take a risk.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Writing was my religion, my foremost purpose in life, my consolation. But as the years passed and I didn't have the successes that others deemed the qualifications of a "real" writer, I went into hiding. I wrote, but I lost the strength of my words. I wrote, but with a doubt that needled each sentence, a lack of self-confidence that clouded my imagination. My boldness evaporated. My verve started to become a distant memory. I lost my truth.

Dressed in a bright blue, skin-hugging mini-dress and matching tights, Jessica was an eye-catching sight.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

I think that if you use the so-called strong words you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people so afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

They are never going to invite you back, so you might as well open your mouth and unload both barrels of that gun. Say what you got to say.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

I think a lot of brands are scared to put out wild shades, but I love that.

My dad had a wildly embarrassing habit for a while, that luckily only came out when he was traveling abroad. When trying to decide what restaurant to eat in, he would boldly stride in to the kitchen of every possible contender and have a look around.

I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

I'm willing to role the dice with my career to be different.

Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.

There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

Freedom isn't for wimps.

If you're too methodical, too fearful, you're not going to win. But the clever thing is to make the calculation correctly about where and when to go over the top. You've got to know when to push it and when to come back.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.