Quotes About Boldness

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

As companies get bigger, they have something to lose. When they do, the natural tendency is to get risk-aversive. They lose their boldness. They lose the spirit to innovate. They lose their pioneering qualities. I am bound and determined not to let that happen to Amazon.com.

When in doubt, wear red.

Show me how to carry Your Presence boldly, not trying to reduce Your truth in fear of offending people.

It is ironic that the people who make history are some of the most bold, courageous, and passionate people that have ever walked the earth, but the actual writing of history is often so fact driven that all emotion is deflated from the telling of a person's life story.

Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity.

Audacity, audacity, always audacity"—a motto that works well on the field of battle, but not so well in diplomatic situations.

On the economy, good intentions were not enough. Bold leadership was needed. But Barack Obama did not provide it. And the economy still suffers.

yes is all you ever need to say to begin a journey.

I'm a Pirate!

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

As president, my father will take on the bold and worthy fights. He will be unafraid to set lofty goals, and he will be relentless in his determination to achieve them.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'

As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn't ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen accidents, meetings and material assistance that no one could have dreamed would come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. —Goethe, by attribution

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter

Audaces fortuna juvat [« La fortune sourit aux audacieux »].

Además, para triunfar siempre en la vida no hace falta más que mucho tupé.