Quotes About Boldness

If it ain't broken then lets damn well try and break it.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I may not be strong, but I am fierce

Courage is action, not talk.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

La vida es imposible cuando se es cobarde- dijo Dinello. [...] -La timidez o es cobardía o es cortesía y hay que romperla con un gesto brutal- agregó Dinello [...] -¡Cruzar las líneas enemigas!- Contestó él sin titubear.

But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?

Are you ready? he asks. Just remember, there's nothing to be afraid of, anytime, ever. Life is one hundred percent adventure.

Him and his Life is all adventure stuff. He says, Don't think too hard about it. Just ask yourself this: what would you do if you weren't afraid?

wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.

Every day, Helen thought, so many people tap the bull on the shoulder and say, Excuse me. I'm just going to grab your horns.

see you here, lad; old Kaiser Bill couldn't frighten

Jesus never pussyfooted

glancing defiantly from one hostile face to another, Kit found a

Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.

Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

No, when I refer to "creative living," I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.

Without bravery, their lives would remain small - far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.

Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live

Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave. Without bravery, he instructed, they would never be able to realize the vaulting scope of their own capacities. Without bravery, they would never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, their lives would remain small—far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.

Bravery means doing something scary. Fearlessness means not even understanding what the word scary means.

Just write anything and put it out there with reckless abandon.

Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling.

I take leaps and gambles with my work all the time—or at least I try to. You must be willing to take risks if you want to live a creative existence. But if you're going to gamble, know that you are gambling. Never roll the dice without being aware that you are holding a pair of dice in your hands. And make certain that you can actually cover your bets (both emotionally and financially).