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.