Bold Quotes

Fortune favors the bold. (Virgil)
In a well-governed country, speak boldly and act boldly. In a country where lawlessness prevails, let your actions be bold but your speech tactful. View quote
Confucius
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become. View quote
Angelina Jolie
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. View quote
William Wordsworth
Look with favor upon a bold beginning. View quote
Virgil
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day. View quote
Brad Meltzer
Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self. View quote
Queen Latifah
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. (Alexander Pope)
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. View quote
Edmund Burke
Freedom lies in being bold. View quote
Robert Frost
Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. View quote
Maya Angelou
Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Often in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. View quote
Helen Keller
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed. View quote
William Wordsworth
For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly. View quote
Vitruvius
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living. (Jean de La Fontaine)
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. View quote
Horace
What alive, and so bold, O earth. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. View quote
Billie Jean King
My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble. View quote
Bill Rodgers