quotations about boldness
He most prevails who nobly dares.
WILLIAM BROOME
Courage in Love
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
HOMER
Odyssey
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCE
Dubliners
Daring leads a man to heaven and to hell.
NICANDER OF COLOPHON
Epitaph
You better knock with a gun in your hand
For boldness has started a journey
That only the graveyard will end
DWIGHT YOAKAM
"No Future In Sight"
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
WILLIAM HUTCHISON MURRAY
The Scottish Himalayan Expedition
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
HELEN KELLER
The Open Door
There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.
TAYEB SALIH
Season of Migration to the North
Be not too bold with your betters.
JAMES HOWELL
Proverbs
Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy.
AGONA APELL
The Success Genome Unravelled
God himself favors the bold.
OVID
Metamorphoses
Every great philosophical shift in history began with a single bold idea.
DAN BROWN
The Lost Symbol
The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.
SUZY KASSEM
Rise Up and Salute the Sun
If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
TACITUS
History
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
DUMAS MALONE
Jefferson the Virginian
Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
DALE TURNER
attributed, We Need to Have a Word
Boldness is a bulwark.
SALLUST
Bellum Catilinae
Boldness is ever blind, for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences. Therefore, it is ill in counsel, good in execution.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Bold ideas and inventions only emerge in an environment where people are free to speak up.
LEENA PATEL
Raise Your Innovation IQ