Quotes About Boldness

J. C. F. von Schiller

Fortune favors the audacious.

Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

A bold heart is half the battle.

A man of courage never wants weapons.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.

No great thing conies to any man unless he has courage.

Courage is the right disposition toward fear.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?"

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.