logo

Quotes About Boldness

Strength, boldness, and new energy are not words that describe Hillary Clinton.
~ Asa Hutchinson
The girl from the fiction department… was looking at him [Winston]… She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life… She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated… All you needed was luck and cunning and boldness. She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead.
~ George Orwell
Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
~ George Orwell
Gelecekten o kadar korkuyoruz ki bir tavÅŸan gibi doÄŸruca boa y?lan?n?n g?rtla??ndan içeri atl?yoruz.
~ George Orwell
Men of Action are Favored by the goddess of Good Luck.
~ George S. Clason
Look, show your cock. It's the shortest line between two points. The world ain't giving away nice lives. You got a trust fund? You a genius? Show your cock. It's what you got.
~ George Saunders
My experience has been that the poor, simple people of the world admire us, are enamored of our boldness, are hopeful that the insanely positive values we espouse can be actualized in the world. They are, in other words, rooting for us. Which means that when we disappoint them--when we come in too big, kill innocents, when our powers of discernment are diminished by our frenzied, self-protective, fearful post-9/11 energy--we have the potential to disappoint them bitterly and drive them away.
~ George Saunders
Courage, then, has nothing to do with a single act of bravery. Courage is how one lives, not one specific incident. Just as mortal sin is a lifestyle, not one startling transgression. Some
~ George Sheehan
When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie!
~ George W. Bush
we did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty as immodestly as possible.
~ Georges Bataille
Vicky had enlivened the Sabbath by coming down to breakfast in abbreviated tennis-shorts, and a sleeveless shirt.
~ Georgette Heyer
One must dare to be happy
~ Gertrude Stein
FIT GIRL,' said the hen. Misha and Phoebe stared at each other. They stared back at the hen again. 'BITCHES GONNA BITCH,' said the hen
~ Gideon Defoe
Take risks. Never say die. It has worked for me.
~ Asha Bhosle
I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.
~ Carlene Carter
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
~ Steve Earle
If I went back to live-action, I'd have to do it the Pixar way. If I didn't, I'd feel like I was walking a tightrope without a net.
~ Lee Unkrich
Sometimes I might say controversial stuff, but it's all Darren Till, and that's the truth.
~ Darren Till
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
~ John Leonard
Chess is not for timid souls.
~ Wilhelm Steinitz
I didn't marry someone timid and conservative.
~ Roland Orzabal
When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.
~ Grayson Allen