Boldness Quotes

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

Grace Hopper

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

Mae West

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Katharine Hepburn

"Success is the child of audacity."

Benjamin Disraeli

“Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.”

“Nobody ever defended anything successfully; there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”

“Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; threaten the threatener and outface the brow of bragging horror.”

“Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.”

“Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace.”

The Bible (Acts 18:9)

“Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it; fear not, neither be discouraged.”

The Bible (Deuteronomy 1:21)

“Lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid.”

The Bible (Isaiah 40:9)

“I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape and bid me hold my peace.”

“Be not afraid: go tell my brethren.”

The Bible (Matthew 28:10)

“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers.”

“Thou comest in such a questionable shape that I will speak to thee.”

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

John Anster

“Fortune favours the bold.”

Virgil

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

“I have only one eye - I have a right to be blind sometimes. I really do not see the signal!”

Horatio Nelson

“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world.”

“Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”

David Farragut

“In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.”

Elsa Schiaparelli

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”

Sophocles