Quotes About Boldness

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

It's what all the great agents do: they make the most incredible and illogical advice sound reasonable, they make you go ahead without fear, and that way you get it, you get more or less what you want, or you get something, anyway; at least you don't end up with nothing when you go ahead without fear, when you lunge into the darkness as if you were operating on the soundest advice in the world.

Aunque todo lo demás falle, siempre podemos asegurarnos la inmortalidad cometiendo algún error espectacular.

Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.

I was appalled that so meaningless a person would dare such effrontery.

people who eschew the insipid philosophy of the middle class, people who are willing to assume controversial positions, to follow their cause, however unpopular it may be, however it may threaten the smugness of the middle class.

Alright, Colby. How we wanna play this? In through the skylight? Side entrance? Sneak in the back? Are you kidding? Fuck all that shit. Poyo don't sneak.

The prudent leader "dreads and reflects on everything that can happen to him but is bold when he is in the thick of action." Xerxes listens patiently, but objects that "if you were to take account of everything . . . , you would never do anything. It is better to have a brave heart and endure one half of the terrors we dread than to [calculate] all of the terrors and suffer nothing at all. . . . Big things are won by big dangers.

todo lo que puede ocurrir, pero es audaz

He insisted on flying to Washington in a new and untested airplane so that its size would intimidate his hosts.

Ich sag's ihnen in's gesicht.

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

I feel like I try not to limit myself. So every experience so far, I've just gone headlong into.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Three, two, one, and f*ck it!

It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!