Boldness Quotes

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

Miguel de Cervantes

All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Virgil

Chance favors the prepared mind.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

James A. Michener

Get as much experience as you can so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

Luck is the residue of design.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.

Ovid

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule and you will have very little bad luck.

Anonymous

Insecurity takes on various disguises. Cockiness and arrogance are among the most common.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

They can only kill us once.

Immaculée Ilibagiza

The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease.

Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

Your life is your song, sing it loud!

Rob Liano

Never feed someone else's dream, you will only remain as a ghost in their vision.

Luis Enrique Cavazos

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.

Christopher Hitchens

I think I'm more curious than I used to be - curious about why people live like they do and how they make sense of their time... Do they see how the sun has made it like a champion around the world overnight, and that all day today we get another chance to be brave, to exercise our humanity with boldness and deft precision?

Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.

He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.

Anne Ursu

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

fortes fortuna adiuvat," Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.

Justin Cotillard

Man is slow because he hesitates

Do not fear criticism, accept it as an inspiration for boldness and action

Debasish Mridha

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Even their downtime was epic.

If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Tim Fargo

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

Curiosity, boldness, and persistence help you to be a success.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

Dillon Burroughs

In 30 years Christians will have baptized their picture of Christ. He won't be a nice, banal, meek, and bearded man with softly permed hair. Instead, he will fill our imaginations more solidly, more invasively , more unexpectedly. Christ will become That Man who changes people, someone who jumps off a bumper sticker and mediocre praise songs and into lives.

Jonalyn Fincher

No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a reckless person. He may see you as a sinner who needs to be re-washed to get back to his old vision for His purpose, but He will never see you as a hopeless being who was created for nothing. Now if God will not see you as hopeless, why then should you see yourself that way? Be bold to say am qualified to dominate the world!

Israelmore Ayivor

March out of the common line; make bold steps ahead and dance to the tune of a sweeter, better and nicer tone of your own music. March out of the tiny box!

Israelmore Ayivor

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.

Rebecca McKinsey

The presence of pain should not be the reason for your low self-image. Boldness is the ability to stand tall even when the valley seems deep. Your pain will bring gain. Just believe and go to work!

Israelmore Ayivor

That thing you’re afraid of? That label you shy away from? That word that seems too bold? That audacious goal? The life you think you don’t deserve? Aren’t talented enough to have? Aren’t brave enough to claim? Fuck. That. Shit. None of that baggage you’ve been carrying around has a place this year. Kick to the the curb. Now. This year only has space for the bold and the audacious and the brave. Don’t try to convince me you are not those things. I know better and your excuses hold no weight here. You are brave and bold and audacious and one hell of a goddess. Always have been. Always will be. So fill every step you take with intention. Then remember that intention is worthless without action—so get a move on, sugar

Jeanette LeBlanc

Don't let public opinions pinion you

Constance Friday

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

Grace Murray Hopper

So I'll be bold, as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart.

If you can endure anything, you can become anything.

Michael Bassey Johnson

If you find a FEAR predator on your tail, STOP running, turn and face it, with BOLDNESS and declare,"God has not given me the spirit of FEAR! but of power, and of love and of a sound mind. [2 Timothy 1:7]Take your best shot Devil! then, march on with boldness, confidence, power and strength, as a soldier in the King's army!

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be bold, don't be boring.

Two kinds of people have many friends, one with bank balance and other with boldness.

Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change.

People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.

Professional men run the business started by the courageous men.

We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.

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