Boldness Quotes - Page 11

• His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Voice, Discipleship

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the case of the Apostles and many holy men, who did not spread themselves out with an empty show of leaves, but were bowed down by the weight of the true fruits of spiritual knowledge: of whom it is written in Acts: 'But when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned men, they were astonished' (Acts 4:13).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  John Cassian “The Sacred Writings of John Cassian”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

  Mark Jenkins

  Inspirational, Travel, Maps

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• I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Wells

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• I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Want, Kind, Standing On The Edge

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Oct 01, 2012

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• Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Greatness, People

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn't been written. When you come across a book like that it is a privilege.

  Hisham Matar

  Book, Fire, Giving

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• And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Squares, Faces, Trouble

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• The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

  Moss Hart

  Dream, Caring, Cities

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

  Denis Johnson

  Brave, Belief, Scared

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• Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Blood, Battle

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.284, Delacorte Press

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• I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Spring, Sunset

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• Boldness is a child of ignorance

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Ignorance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Boldness'.

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• The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.

  David M. Shoup

  Mistake, Adventure, Fighting

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• Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, Encounters, May

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.190, Princeton University Press

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• The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

  Brian Greene

  Asking, Answers, May

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.108, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

  Georges Danton

  Perpetual

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• My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

  Frank R. Wolf

  Prayer, America, Silence

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• We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Perseverance, Past, Men

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• If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!

  Lu Xun

  Fighting, Men, Speaks Out

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• We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Inspire, Enemy

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