Quotes About Boldness

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

Where the hell do you get your nerve? From a Cracker Jack box.

It won't do to shrink from hard speeches and judgments when they are necessary. But it is horrible to make them when one is not compelled.

Only risky plans have any chance to be great.

Without fear, there cannot be true courage

Dain wasn't certain what exactly was wrong with her, but he had no doubt that something was. He was Lord Beelzebub, wasn't he? She was supposed to faint, or recoil in horrified revulsion at the very least. Yet she had gazed at him as bold as brass, and it had seemed for a moment as though the creature were actually flirting with him.

Coward" he said softly. She stopped and turned and marched back to him. She dropped her reticule, grasped his neckcloth, cupped his face, dragged his mouth to hers, and kissed him.

Happy endings aren't for cowards.

But when I accept the call of creative passion, I am a bold stroke of vermilion, a renegade hyperbole, or the wild fury of jazz violin. The world is a canvas to explore, a blank page to fill, and an arpeggio of waiting experiences. This moving masterpiece called "life" becomes intoxicating when it's lived as if it were art.

Courage isn't a feeling that you wait for. Courage is doing when you don't have courage. Courage is doing it scared.

Live as big as you can, with what you've got.

When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

This one's good. 'Don't expect a man with a hard-on to be able to think. He doesn't have enough blood to run both heads.' Hmmm. He shot her a wicked grin over his shoulder. I do. Want to see?

Go big or go home. That was the Kincaid way.

Life was short, so grab it by the balls and run.

The last guy who told me what I can't do is still walking funny." That gave him a smile. He was a sick, sick man, but damn, he loved her sass.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.

Ha-ha! Ah-hahahaha! I am wizard; hear me roar!

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly. ~Harry Dresden

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

This is scary. And we're doing it anyway, I said. That makes us brave, right? If we get away with it, I said. If we don't, it just makes us stupid.