Boldness Quotes

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Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.
- Oscar Wilde

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Boldness be my friend.
- William Shakespeare

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Fortune befriends the bold.
- John Dryden

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Act honestly, and answer boldly.
- Danish Proverb

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Boldness is a child of ignorance.
- Francis Bacon

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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
- Emily Dickinson

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Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
- Menander

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
- Homer J Simpson

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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
- F. L. Lucan

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He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
- Jonathan Swift

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Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
- Tobias G. Smollett

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Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
- Baltasar Gracian

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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
- Latin Proverb

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Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
- Edwin Louis Cole

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When the mouse laughs at the cat, there’s a hole nearby.
- Nigerian Proverb

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In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
- Titus Livy

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But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
- Mary Wortley Montagu

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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
- Livy

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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
- Baltasar Gracian

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If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
- Arthur Koestler

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It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
- Ninon de Lenclos

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The oldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
- Robert Dale Owen

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Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
- Ethel Merman

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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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

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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.
- W. J. Slim

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
- Francis Bacon

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
- Walter Scott

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