Boldness Quotes

I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Courage is grace under pressure.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

[It] is better to live one single day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.

Courage makes victory possible.

Fortune favours the bold.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward