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Quotes About Boldness

My jeans remain unsoiled. My heebies are jeebie-less. There are no willies up me.
~ Jason Arnopp
If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)
~ Jason Fried
Strong opinions aren't free. You'll turn some people off. They'll accuse you of being arrogant and aloof. That's life. For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you. If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)
~ Jason Fried
Don't shy away from the fact that your product or service does less. Highlight it. Be proud of it. Sell it as aggressively as competitors sell their extensive feature lists.
~ Jason Fried
Nadie se había atrevido a turbar el universo, o al menos no había sido yo.
~ Javier Marías
It was the irrepressible Twi'lek who finally said what they were all thinking but didn't have the courage to bring up. "You know you both naked, right?
~ Drew Karpyshyn
gone are those hugest hours of dark and cold when blood and flesh to inexistence bow (all that was doubtful's certain,timid's bold; old's youthful and reluctant's eager now)
~ E.E. Cummings
And to top everything he's got this problem he can't let her know how he feels: What-he's shy? Shy! Tell me who in this goddamn world is shy? Young, old, the lame and halt. Clobber you over the head with what they feel. Oh Man I wish just once in my long fucked-up life someone had come up to me who was too shy to tell me what they thought of me...
~ E.L. Doctorow
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
~ Edith Hamilton
Boldness formerly was not the character of atheists as such. They were even of a character nearly the reverse; they were formerly like the old Epicureans, rather an unenterprising race. But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.
~ Edmund Burke
Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests
~ Edward Hallett Carr
I am even more certain that to create dangerously is also to create fearlessly, boldly embracing the public and private terrors that would silence us, then bravely moving forward even when it feels as though we are chasing or being chased by ghosts…
~ Edwidge Danticat
Watch me do it, Jeff! Watch me do it, square!
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Dígalo, dígalo sin miedo; tal como va el mundo todos los que no somos imbéciles necesitamos estar un poco locos.
~ Alejandro Casona
Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Do you hear that, Dillon? Inadvertent self-wedgie! Write that down! That's what you want your characters to say, not some anodyne bullshit about corporate greed.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Il coraggio, uno non se lo può dare.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
For some heroes, nothing is impossible
~ Alethea Kontis
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley
~ Alex Garland
When I am gripped with despair, when I think I might stop, I speak to my dead. Tell them a story. What am I doing with this life? They hold me accountable. I let them make me bolder or more modest or louder or more moving, but I ask them to listen, and then write.
~ Alexander Chee
A strong body makes the mind strong... I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.
~ Alexander Hamilton
What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.
~ Alexander III
Only the brave lie here.
~ Alexander Kent