quotations about boldness
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE
Epistles
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
By boldness great fears are concealed.
LUCAN
De Bello Civili
You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
STEVEN MOFFAT
attributed, Inspired Reflections on Success
Towards great persons use respective boldness.
GEORGE HERBERT
The Church-Porch
Who is so faint, that dares not be so bold
To touch the fire, the weather being cold?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Venus and Adonis
You will never be as young or as beautiful as you are today. Be bold. Seize the life that was meant to be yours. Make it magnificent.
HANNAH RICHELL
The Peacock Summer
He died ... as bold as brass.
GEORGE PARKER
Life's Painter
The gods look with favor on superior daring.
CIVILIS
attributed, Tacitus' History
Tremble little lion man,
You'll never settle any of your scores
Your grace is wasted in your face,
Your boldness stands alone among the wreck
MUMFORD & SONS
"Little Lion Man"
In conversation boldness now bears sway;
But know, that nothing can so foolish be
As empty boldness.
GEORGE HERBERT
The Church-Porch