Quotes with boldness

  • Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
  • I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

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  • Confucius Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Voltaire How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Homer A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • F. L. Lucan Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sir Walter Scott 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
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Akhenaton 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
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Alfred Noyes St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
    Alfred Noyes
    English poet, short-story writer and playwright (1880 - 1958)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Pat Riley When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak 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.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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