17 Quotes Tagged: boldness

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.

"Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere — "Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,"

For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised a sort of passion in him for surmounting difficulties; as if it were not enough to be always victorious in the field, unless places and seasons and nature herself submitted to him.

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

Freedom lies in being bold.