Quotes About Boldness

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

The oldest Egyptian or Hindu philosopher raised a corner of the veil from the statue of divinity; and still the trembling robe remains raised, and I gaze upon as fresh a glory as he did, since it was I in him that was then so bold, and it is he in me that reviews the vision. No dust has settled on that robe; no time has elapsed since that divinity was revealed.

What a different aspect will courage put upon the face of things!

Se houvesse um homem que ousase dizer tudo quanto pensa deste mundo, não lhe restaria um palmo quadrado de terra onde ficar.

Ik ga voor je zingen, een beetje vals misschien, maar ik zing toch. Ik zing terwijl jullie creperen, ik dans op je gore lijk...

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

Write on your doors the saying wise and old, Be bold! be bold! and everywhere-- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeve of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other;

Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.

My spiked hair goes back about 15 years ago. I had long, curly rocker hair then. The woman who cuts my hair thought I needed a new style, so I let her surprise me. I flipped when I first saw it, but I soon realized the look was really me. I've always been a little crazy.

I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that I'm perhaps too timid to do in real life.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

If you feel like an idiot wearing neon yellow shorts, you shouldn't wear them.

I wear weird-colored toenail polish - like blue, green, or yellow. If it's strange-looking, I will wear it.

When I was really young, I thought it was really cool to wear red and yellow bike pants with one red sock and one yellow sock.

I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Red lipstick has been my beauty staple for years. I show up to Pilates or yoga at 8 A.M. wearing my red lipstick.

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.