quotations about boldness
A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard II
The bold persist even against misfortune; the timorous and abject yield to despair through fear alone.
PLOTIUS FIRMUS
attributed, Tacitus' History
Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
In rashness there is hope.
TACITUS
History
Boldness is an ill keeper of promise.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Show boldness and aspiring confidence.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King John
Boldness comes to me now and brings me heart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Troilus and Cressida
We need to be bold and adventurous in our thinking in order to survive.
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
attributed, Quote Fancy
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness.
ANDY STANLEY
attributed, Ex-Muslim: How One Daring Prayer to Jesus Changed a Life Forever
'Tis boldness, boldness, does the deed in the Court.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Monsieur d'Olive
You'll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it.
MANDY HALE
The Single Woman
The only hope of safety was in boldness.
TACITUS
History
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough even to have willed success.
PROPERTIUS
Elegies
And as she looked about, she did behold
How over that same door was likewise writ,
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold,
That much she mus'd, yet could not construe it
By any riddling skill or common wit.
At last she spied at that room's upper end
Another iron door, on which was writ,
Be not too bold; whereto though she did bend
Her earnest mind, yet wist not what it might intend.
EDMUND SPENSER
Faerie Queene
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
The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
By boldness great fears are concealed.
LUCAN
De Bello Civili
You call honourable boldness impudent sauciness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
II Henry IV
Bold knaves thrive, without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.
JOHN DRYDEN
Constantine the Great