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Quotes About Boldness

Calculation never made a hero.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
To play it safe is not to play.
~ Robert Altman
We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
~ David Grayson
No guts, no glory.
~ Anonymous
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
~ Sonia Johnson
All serious daring starts from within.
~ Eudora Welty
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.
~ Dorothy Parker
R. Buckminster Fuller
~ Dare to be naïve.
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
~ Lucan
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
~ Menander
Do it big or stay in bed.
~ Larry Kelly
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
~ Christian Bovee
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
~ Herodotus
No one reaches a high position without daring.
~ Publilius Syrus
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
~ Lillian Carter
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
~ Anonymous
Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
~ German proverb
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
~ James Lane Allen
Sometimes "the fool who rushes in" gets the job done.
~ Al Bernstein
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
~ Lord Darling
Seize time by the forelock.
~ Pittacus of Mitylene