Boldness Quotes
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.
~Mary Wortley Montagu, The Answer
Venus favors the bold. ~Ovid
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. ~Francis Bacon
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom lies in being bold. ~Robert Frost
Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1894
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. ~Edmund Spenser
If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~John Dryden
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ~Theodore Roosevelt
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
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