Quotes About Boldness

All good art is an indiscretion.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Fortune helps the brave.

FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT. (Fortune favors the brave.)

Then, with sensation of plunging into an unknown sea, I moved to lay my lips on his, unurged, uninvited, kissing him for the first time entirely of my own will.

Courage crawls atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory!

Have you ever noticed how 'What the hell' is always the right decision to make?

Lord…grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus" (Acts 4:29-30).

Hello, sucker!

The mark of the true male is courage, but to have courage the man must take heart.

Bravery is the ability to control your fear"

The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.

Wer gerade gewachsen ist, ist für Leichtsinn. Überhaupt ohne Leichtsinn ist das ganze Leben keinen Schuss Pulver wert.«

P]erhaps in this case, as often, the most courageous resolution might have been at the same time the most prudent

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

All—Easterners and Westerners, Northerners and Southerners, officers and men, cowboys and college graduates, wherever they came from, and whatever their social position—possessed in common the traits of hardihood and a thirst for adventure. They were to a man born adventurers, in the old sense of the word.

The greatest intellectual achievement of men should be not only in understanding the importance of the reason, but to consciously and boldly overthrow it as and when the welfare of others' warrants it. Why should anybody think about others welfare? This is because the reason's practical worth is only with respect to others. Instinct is often enough to take care of an individual, but the reason is necessary to meet the societal requirements and also to derive benefits from it.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Again and again Someone in the crowd wakes up. He has no ground in the crowd And he emerges according to much broader laws. He carries strange customs with him and demands room for bold gestures. The future speaks ruthlessly through him. —Rainer Maria Rilke (Über Kunst, 1899)

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

When you've got curves - you need to show them, and I love showing mine!

I'm not afraid of needles.