Be Bold, Be Brave! … Or be Prudent? – Boldness Quotes, Fortune Quotes

Then indecision brings its own delays,


And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander



And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Bible



A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer



Act honestly, and answer boldly.

Danish Proverb



Fortune befriends the bold.

John Dryden



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

Arthur Koestler



When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.

Nigerian Proverb



The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

Victor Hugo



Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Jean Anouilh



Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

William Hutchinson Murray



Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

F. L. Lucan



Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Emily Dickinson



Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

Arnold Palmer



In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.

Titus Livius



It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Fortune favours the bold.

Virgil



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

William Joseph Slim



The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale



Boldness is a child of ignorance.

Francis Bacon



Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Tobias G. Smollett



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

Dale E. Turner



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



Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Akhenaton



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

Francis Bacon