(193 quotes found)
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
William Shakespeare
“When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman”
Jean de la Bruyere
“It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty”
Sir 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
“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved”
Sigmund Freud
“Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.”
Arnold Palmer
“Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.”
William Lloyd Garrison
“Boldness is a child of ignorance”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“GORGON, n.The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / So he laid down his arms.”
Thomas Hood
