Sayings about Boldness and Daring
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid. ~ Latin Proverbs
You will not dare mistreat the face you see in the morning. ~ Palestinian Proverbs
Don’t be too bold, or you will burn your eyes; but don’t be too slow, or you will lose your share. ~ Lithuanian Proverbs
Act honestly, and answer boldly. ~ Danish Proverbs
Sayings by Unknown
In life, those that are great are those that dare to follow their dreams through the good times and the bad times.
The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity.
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
Successful people do what unsuccessful people dare not to.
Audacity has made kings.
Success comes to those who dare to begin.
Courage is daring to take the first step, or a different path.
Be bold with your dreams. Nurture the dreams that inspire you to go beyond your limits.
Quotations about Boldness and Daring
Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream. ~ John Salley
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. ~ Baltasar Gracián
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. ~ Basil King
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
Nothing will come of nothing; we must dare mighty things. ~ William Shakespeare
By daring, great fears are concealed. ~ Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
All serious daring starts from within. ~ Joan Baez
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave. ~ Euripides
You must play boldly to win. ~ Arnold Palmer
Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing. ~ H. G. Bohn
Daring is not safe against daring men. ~ Ovid
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. ~ Winston Churchill
In times of stress, be bold and valiant. ~ Horace
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. ~ Menander of Athens
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. ~ Jim Rohn
Freedom lies in being bold. ~ Robert Frost
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. ~ Bernadette Devlin
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. ~ Georges Jacques Danton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ~ May Sarton
Walk boldly and wisely…. There is a hand above that will help you on. ~ Philip James Bailey
All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little. ~ William L. O’Neill
The will to do, the soul to dare. ~ Sir Walter Scott
All glory comes from daring to begin. ~ Eugene F. Ware
The loving are the daring. ~ Bayard Taylor
Boldness is a child of ignorance. ~ Francis Bacon
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. ~ John Lancaster Spalding
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ~ Helen Keller
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. ~ Karl Von Clausewitz
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. ~ Anita Brookner
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. ~ Edmund Spenser
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. ~ Horace
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. ~ John Christian Bovee
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. ~ Karl Von Clausewitz
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having put forth the best within you. ~ Henry J. Kaiser
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~ F. L. Lucan
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues
Dare to act! Even Venus aids the bold. ~ Albius Tibullus
Venus favors the bold. ~ Ovid
Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail. ~ Louis Binstock
They have rights who dare defend them. ~ Roger Baldwin
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear. ~ Ovid
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. ~ Francis Bacon
Let’s dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else. ~ Shirley Briggs
What kind of man would live where there is no daring? ~ Charles A. Lindbergh
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. ~ Richard M. DeVos
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. ~ Georges Danton
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. “Be bold!” and everywhere — “Be bold; Be not too bold!” Yet better the excess than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fortune befriends the bold. ~ John Dryden
Never be afraid to dare. ~ Vladimir Horowitz
The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true. ~ Joe Girard
A decent boldness ever meets with friends. ~ Homer
It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad. ~ Homer
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. ~ Horace
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. ~ William Newton Clark
Dream big and dare to fail. ~ Norman D. Vaughan
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
Whatever you dream you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No one reaches a high position without daring. ~ Publilius Syrus
Success is the child of audacity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
The bold are helpless without cleverness. ~ Euripides
Only those who dare, truly live. ~ Ruth P. Freedman
The first quality that is needed is audacity. ~ Winston Churchill
Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way. A Higher Intelligence than the mortal sees the road before us. ~ Charles B. Newcomb
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ~ Anita Roddick
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. ~ Dorothea Brande
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare. ~ Georges Danton
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller