Quotes About Boldness

If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.

Luck always favors those who are bold.

He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

Some of you may not like what I had to say, but these are the things that I've noticed and believe should be said.

a bold MechWarrior is one who manages to survive his own stupidity, and a hero is a bold MechWarrior who survives rescuing other bold MechWarriors from even greater stupidity.

He reached up and out with both arms to shoot his cuffs, and for an instant he might have served to illustrate the crucial step in a manual on the seizing of days. He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over again.

He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all.

adventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold.

my grandfather had no regard for anyone who could be scandalized by a shirt.

If I could work without the pants on," he said, "I would go naked.

speaker and shout. 'Mary

It was a long shot but Ballard knew that long shots never paid off if you didn't take them.

We stand out, we strike out, we do our own thing, go our own way. The herd of independent minds, somebody called it.

At other places management says, 'Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?' Lewie was not only willing to bet the ranch. He was willing to hire people and let them bet the ranch, too. His attitude was: 'Sure, what the fuck, it's only a ranch.

He would look Piggy Bacon straight in the eye

those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

No fear - that's my approach every single time I'm on the ice.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?