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Quotes About Boldness

When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.
~ Dwight L. Moody
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.
~ Michael Beckwith
Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.
~ Andrew Carnegie
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
~ Pierre Corneille
Daring is not safe against daring men.
~ Ovid
The Old Man ain't afraid of hell
~ James Thurber
I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.
~ Jay Gould
All men would be cowards if they could.
~ John Wilmot
I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.
~ Justin Timberlake
Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.
~ Confucius
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
~ Emanuel Celler
Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.
~ Francis Bacon
Free men stick their necks out.
~ Bernard Crick
My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.
~ Charles Alvin Beckwith
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.
~ Frederick Exley
That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.
~ George Crabbe
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
~ Henry David Thoreau