Boldness Quotes - page 2

Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious. (Edmund Burke)
For he considered that, in many cases, but especially in war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions. View quote
Livy
Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous. View quote
Livy
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. View quote
John Dryden
You praise a man for having killed his enemy by means of an advantage; and by praising him for boldness you praise him for a sin against nature, because boldness leads to destruction. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb. View quote
Patañjali
At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks. View quote
Priscilla Presley
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness. View quote
Ninon de L'Enclos
Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man. View quote
Diana Gabaldon
Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash. View quote
John Buchan
Tektology is not something principally new; it is not a leap in scientific evolution, but a necessary conclusion from the past, the necessary continuation of what has been done and is being done by men in their practice and theory. This is in part a justification for my boldness ... if any justification is necessary. (Alexander Bogdanov)
Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains. View quote
Gerald of Wales
Spinoza is a highly systematic thinker, but still I do not think I can offer a single key for all things Spinozistic. Personally, one thing which got me excited about Spinoza is his philosophical boldness, i. e., his willingness to pursue philosophical exploration as far as he can, making very little concessions to commonly accepted beliefs and norms. In terms of content, I take his attempt to conceive of God, nature, and ethics in a manner that is free from anthropomorphism and anthropocentric illusions as one of the deepest elements of his philosophical thinking. A closely related issue is his advocacy of actual infinity (an issue that has been mostly neglected in recent literature). Finally, the very attempt to do philosophy systematically (rather than rely on fragmented and disassociated intuitions) and transparently (laying bare the logical structure of his arguments) commands my respect, indeed admiration. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
It is crystal clear that once victorious, socialism can never tolerate the personality cult and its harmful consequences. The energetic measures taken by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to do away with the personality cult, and its consequence, set a brilliant example of unprecedented political boldness. View quote
Ho Chí Minh
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. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity. View quote
Francis Bacon
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
Wisdom precludes boldness. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities. View quote
Victor Hugo
He had not stopped desiring her for a single instant. He found her in the dark bedrooms of captured towns, especially in the most abject ones, and he would make her materialize in the smell of dry blood on the bandages of the wounded, in the instantaneous terror of the danger of death, at all times and in all places. He had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions at arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dunghill of war, the more the war resembled Amaranta. That was how he suffered in exile, looking for a way of killing her with his own death. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Folks, this is a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy and on truth. A raging virus, growing inequity, the sting of systemic racism, a climate in crisis. America′s role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is, we face them all at once. Presenting this nation with one of the gravest responsibilities we′ve had. Now we′re going to be tested.Are we going to step up, all of us? It′s time for boldness, for there is so much to do. And this is certain. I promise you, we will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion, is the question. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? View quote
Joe Biden
A decent boldness ever meets with friends. View quote
Homer
Boldness be my friend. View quote
William Shakespeare