Quotes on boldness
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.
Wilde, Oscar
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
McLaughlin, Mignon
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Roosevelt, Theodore
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
Montaigne, Michel de
Venus favors the bold.
Ovid
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
Dryden, John
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
Gracian, Baltasar
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
Swift, Jonathan
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Bacon, Francis
Freedom lies in being bold.
Frost, Robert
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
Gracian, Baltasar