Quotes About Boldness

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

La hardiesse du vrai s'élève à des combinaisons interdites à l'art, tant elles sont invraisemblables ou peu décentes, à moins que l'écrivain ne les adoucisse, ne les émonde, ne les châtre.

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you will never accomplish more than others expect

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

I know people talk about the opposite of truth and the opposite of love. What is the opposite of fear? The opposites of unease and panic and regret?

You only regret the things you haven`t done !

L'audace! L'audace! Toujours l'audace!

Once I get something going well, I'll risk fucking it up just for the action.

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

Valiente es el ladrón que lleva una lámpara en su mano.

Status seekers, I never cared Once I found out they never dared To seize the world and shake it upside down And every stinking bum should wear a crown