Quotes About Boldness

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

I have fun being sexy and tough at the same time.

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I'm wearing a bright red dress. And there's a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.

But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

He looked again. Longer this time. She may have 'forgotten' to put a bra on that morning. Another oops. "Are you kidding me with that?" he asked.

You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?

Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

We ain't dead -- we are only off being pirates.

Il coraggio è resistenza alla paura e dominio della paura, ma non assenza di paura.

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances.

Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçus par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.

me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.

Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

What are you assholes looking at?