Quotes About Boldness

The only way to overcome your fears is to do the thing you fear, as Emerson wrote, and the death of fear is certain.

If you constantly think thoughts of boldness and courage and self-assertion, you become progressively bolder and more courageous and more self-assertive. The more you dwell on the person you would like to be, with the qualities you would like to have, the more you implant those deep into your subconscious mind where they become part of your ongoing evolution. What you habitually think about eventually becomes a part of your character and your personality.

Courage is a habit that is learned by acting courageously whenever the quality of courage is required.

We have a mutual friend, see, and she- Ah, screw it. This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die?

Boldness, at first a stranger to be treated with caution, soon becomes a friend, then a partner, and finally taken for granted, as is the daily relationship between married people.

without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins.

She doesn't scare. Fear and her walk on different sides of the street.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal. -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Her boldness only served to remind him that he had strayed into a world of masculine privilege even greater than the one he had left behind in England all those years ago. Here a man's word literally was law, and women were considered little more than pretty playthings to be used and then discarded when a man's attention wandered to a more enticing pleasure.

but sometimes when you took a chance it was better to hold nothing back and to go all-in. He

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Carpe Jugulum, read Agnes aloud. That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means- Go for the throat

She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult.

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy state of mind of someone who intended to deal with the problem of the ground when it presented itself.

What the hell. If you had to go, why not go with style?

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate

He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.