Quotes About Boldness

Zo. I'm no damn pussy

Did you just curse? Isn't 'hell' - she air quoted - a cursed word? How 'bout you go straight there and see?

Comfort is for sissies and unattractive people

He sallied forth, having told all those bally lies with the clear, blue, pop-eyed gaze of a young child.

One must defy, not apologize.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in

By now accustomed to Billie's personal flamboyancies, I

He dreamed big dreams - impossible dreams they told him. Then he moved heaven and earth to make his dreams come true. When you, as a leader, start with a vision, then communicate that vision to the people you lead, utilize your people skills to motivate and inspire them, maintain your character and integrity at every decision-point, command with competence, lead with boldness and confidence, and support your people with your serving heart, your vision will become your reality.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Never take counsel of your fears."—Motto of Stonewall Jackson

Act first, explain later.

Fache will do what no one else dares.

Drink it, he told himself. You have nothing to fear.

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

master…Fear

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. —Helen Keller

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear; heroes just act differently.

Besser, du machst mit der vollen Kraft deines Seins einen Fehler, als dass du mit verzagendem Mut jeden Fehler vermeiden willst.

I was full of piss and vinegar in those days, not to mention too stupid to know better, in other words still in my twenties

shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

We seem by temperament primed to respond to life in either a negative or a positive emotional register. The tendency toward a melancholy or upbeat temperament, like that toward timidity or boldness, emerges within the first year of life, a fact that strongly suggests it too is genetically determined.

She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.

Seekers found clues in the successes, failures, and confusions of predecessors, who became their inspiration, their targets, their resource. From Socrates, Plato learned both caution and the need for bold patterns of meaning of his own. From Plato, Aristotle learned the perils of deserting the world of the senses. Still the later somehow did not make the earlier irrelevant. Seekers, like artists, never wholly displaced those who had tried before. They all enlarged and enriched the menu.