47 Quotes That Inspire Boldness

August 19, 2007

1. Fortune favors the bold.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)

2. Maps encourage boldness. They’re like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
- Mark Jenkins To Timbuktu

3. In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)

4. Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)

5. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

6. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

7. Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
- Billie Jean King

8. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

9. When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

10. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

11. Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
- Alan Alda

12. Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

13. Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
- Matt Blunt

14. If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis

15. When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
- Jean de la Bruyere

16. The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Anthony Burgess

17. At first I was very impatient with the kind of nit-picky detail that philosophers go into, and I felt that they often missed the forest for the trees. I just wanted to paint bold ideas.
- David Chalmers

18. The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I’m taking more chances; I’m bold and proud.
- Paula Cole

19. To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life’s outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
- George Crabbe

20. Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
- Carly Fiorina

21. Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost

22. The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
- Rutherford B. Hayes

23. He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
- Herodotus

24. We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
- John Hoeven

25. Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
- Horace

26. I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
- Thomas Jefferson

27. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller

28. You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you’re bold and if you’re ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.
- Dirk Kempthorne

29. We need to get bold. We need to get together. We need to get moving. And we need to do it now. Join me and let’s go!
- Timothy Pawlenty

30. Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
- Camille Pissarro

31. In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
- Edgar Allan Poe

32. I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what’s right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
- Bill Richardson

33. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
- William Shakespeare

34. Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
- Anthony Storr

35. Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
- Voltaire

36. How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
- William Wordsworth

37. The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
- Jim Rohn

38. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
- Isaac Newton

39. Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world’s greatest golfers. However, it’s even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you’ll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.
- Greg Norman

40. Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for.
- Ruth Boorstin

41. I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.
- Horatio Nelson

42. Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
- H.G. Bohn

43. Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
- Henry J. Kaiser

44. The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
- Norman Vincent Peale

45. People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
- Dale E. Turner

46. Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.
- Arnold Palmer

47. At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
- Paul Freund

Posted in Be Bold by Nathania Johnson