Quotes About Boldness

I felt the need to be rebellious. A woman should have a moment in her life when she's rebellious, don't you think?

Some of us have incredible potential, but we don't want to try anything bold because we don't want to fail. The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that's better than rejection.

I don't give a damn what people think.

If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Louie in his early eighties. "I think my skateboarding shakes up a few people. Some stop their cars to be sure their eyes aren't deceiving them.

The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage.

It wasn't really, he knew, about less fear. It was about more courage.

You'd hide behind a seventy-three-year-old woman? Are you that much of a coward?

Because you can't be brave if you're not afraid.

he should fear never beginning to live.

A Brave Man in a Brave Country Surprised

Sometimes you just have to do something stupid.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Risk should not reflect a celebration of foolishness but a freedom from fear.

Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

If you don't stop, I'm going to take you right here, in front of God, Jacob, and the seagulls.

Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it.

For the risk of it, for the sheer surprise of pressing one's nose to the glass and finding someone staring back on the other side.

she never wore makeup—just those sharp features, take it or leave it.