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
Show boldness and aspiring confidence.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King John
Boldness is an ill keeper of promise.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
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
The bold persist even against misfortune; the timorous and abject yield to despair through fear alone.
PLOTIUS FIRMUS
attributed, Tacitus' History
You call honourable boldness impudent sauciness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
II Henry IV
Boldness comes to me now and brings me heart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Troilus and Cressida
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough even to have willed success.
PROPERTIUS
Elegies
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
We need to be bold and adventurous in our thinking in order to survive.
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
attributed, Quote Fancy
In rashness there is hope.
TACITUS
History
Who is so faint, that dares not be so bold
To touch the fire, the weather being cold?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Venus and Adonis
'Tis boldness, boldness, does the deed in the Court.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Monsieur d'Olive
Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
The only hope of safety was in boldness.
TACITUS
History
Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness.
ANDY STANLEY
attributed, Ex-Muslim: How One Daring Prayer to Jesus Changed a Life Forever