quotations about boldness
The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
The gods look with favor on superior daring.
CIVILIS
attributed, Tacitus' History
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE
Epistles
Bold knaves thrive, without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.
JOHN DRYDEN
Constantine the Great
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
Towards great persons use respective boldness.
GEORGE HERBERT
The Church-Porch
You will never be as young or as beautiful as you are today. Be bold. Seize the life that was meant to be yours. Make it magnificent.
HANNAH RICHELL
The Peacock Summer
He died ... as bold as brass.
GEORGE PARKER
Life's Painter
Who is so faint, that dares not be so bold
To touch the fire, the weather being cold?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Venus and Adonis
Tremble little lion man,
You'll never settle any of your scores
Your grace is wasted in your face,
Your boldness stands alone among the wreck
MUMFORD & SONS
"Little Lion Man"
In conversation boldness now bears sway;
But know, that nothing can so foolish be
As empty boldness.
GEORGE HERBERT
The Church-Porch